Gorey could see another boost in the number of homes being built in the town after planning permission has been submitted to Wexford County Council for a large scale residential development consisting ...

A streamlining of our rules on migration is both necessary and overdue. The new International Protection Bill 2026 will introduce significant changes to our asylum laws by giving effect to the EU ...

Smartphone apps – particularly those based on psychological theories – are three times as effective as no or minimal support at helping people who smoke stub out their tobacco use long term, according ...

For Gavin Bazunu, the 2023/’24 campaign was all going to plan before disaster struck. Then first-choice Irish goalkeeper, he was playing every minute of Southampton’s Championship season as they put a ...

When Louth man Ciarán Brennan inherited the small landholding at Stonehouse, Dunleer, where he had grown up, he decided to give it back to nature and let it rewild.

Connacht are set to sign South African loosehead prop Francois van Wyk from Bath ahead of next season. The Irish Independent understands that the 34-year-old has agreed to join Connacht this summer, ...

Six federal prosecutors from the US attorney’s office in Minnesota have quit over the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter of Renee Nicole Good, the New York Times has reported.

Dublin councillors have lashed out at comments from Tánaiste Simon Harris in which he said many people in Ireland’s emergency homeless accommodation system don’t have a right to housing in this ...

Ireland will hit the slopes in their bid to peak for World Cup qualification after Carla Ward’s side discovered the venues for their Nations League away assignments.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have refused to testify in a Republican-led congressional investigation of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying it was a partisan exercise.

An eight year old girl allegedly stabbed multiple times by her mother in an unprovoked attack, told gardaí how the accused stood over her with a knife and told her “I am going to kill you”.

As the dust settles on Luke Littler’s phenomenal back-to-back World Championship success, the new darts season gets underway with the World Series in Bahrain on January 15.