21+ hour, 5+ min ago   (534+ words) Dozens of criminal legal aid cases were adjourned at a midlands district court on Thursday due to the withdrawal of services by criminal solicitors involved in the legal aid payment dispute. At Mullingar District Court, Judge Patricia Cronin adjourned the…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (135+ words) Gardaí have released a second man arrested in connection with a fatal shooting in Dún Laoghaire in July. The man aged in his 40s was arrested on Thursday as part of the Garda investigation into the death of Mark Cullen (39). Cullen…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1006+ words) Every week, Adam Gannon talks to people on the doorsteps in his Fermanagh council district, which stretches from Garrison in the west to Derrylin in the east. More of them are talking about a united Ireland than ever before “and…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1669+ words) French toast is offered to visitors at Drumcree Community Centre in Portadown when they walk through its doors on a mild-September morning. Sunflowers grow outside the whitewashed building where children’s scooters are abandoned beside wooden swings on a grassy play…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (375+ words) The power to call a unity referendum in Northern Ireland cannot be left entirely in the hands of the North’s Secretary of State, even though it is laid down in the 1998 Belfast Agreement, Taoiseach Michael Martin has said. Emphasising that…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (521+ words) Gardaí investigating the hit-and-run killing of Bryan Lowe (17) in Co Clare last week are preparing to make arrests in the case and believe teenage boys have vital information to share about the crime. They suspect the hit-and-run incident was carried…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (275+ words) A second man has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting in south Dublin. Mark Cullen (39) died on July 5th after he was shot in the leg at Patrician Park, Kill Avenue, Dún Laoghaire, in a suspected intimidation or so-called…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (451+ words) A contract worth up to €550 million to oversee the construction of Dublin’s MetroLink rail line has been awarded to engineering and consultancy consortium Jacobs and Aecom. The 12-year “programme delivery partner” contract is the largest awarded to date in the…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (294+ words) Jason Hutch, the son of veteran criminal and failed election candidate Gerry “The Monk” Hutch, is being extradited from Lanzarote on the Government jet. Hutch, who has been in custody in Lanzarote for months, was expected to arrive in Dublin…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (533+ words) The Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) and the Camogie Association would be “very silly” to propose motions that would abolish them without certain guarantees about their future, Minister for Sport Patrick O’Donovan has said. Efforts to merge the two women’s…...