The Government has been urged to support the renovation of vacant homes and shop properties to boost housing supply

The housing association today also confirmed that 2024 was a record year for its house delivery at 1,525 new homes which was a 40 per cent increase on the 1,085 homes delivered in 2023.

The drugs haul was seized after Gardaí stopped and searched a car on the N20 Limerick Cork road, near Croom, Co Limerick.

Fine Gael made the announcement on Friday evening, as she was one of 11 nominees by the Taoiseach to the Seaned.

The court heard that a site engineer who should have been on-site to supervise this work had left at midday despite being contracted to be present

Both cases were taken by the Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE), which also has a live challenge to the 2024 climate action plan

Andrew Sankey (57) pleaded guilty to two counts of sexually assaulting the child at her home in Dublin and at an unknown location in the State on dates between September 1996 and October 2000

Two teenage girls have been described as disturbed and upset by the incident on Thursday.

A search, which is underway at a house in Co Meath in connection with the murder of a 24-year-old woman, is expected to take a number of days

Mr Justice Paul Coffey said it was very clear to him that the woman’s sense of suffering was compounded by the fact there was no aftercare offered by Dundrum Cosmetic Clinic ten years ago.

The White House has issued an executive order in response to what it called ‘illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America’ and Israel.

The men, aged in their 20s and juvenile, were detained at a Garda station in the Dublin Metropolitan Region.

In his garda interviews, Mr Vial said he "winded" Mr Wilkin by striking him in the stomach and then placed the pensioner over a fence about four metres from the edge of the cliff.

This comes after complaints from passengers about disappearing services in the greater Dublin area

The DPP has between 28 and 56 days, from last Thursday when Fogarty was sentenced, in which to appeal the hit-and-run penalty.

It has emerged that the technology set to be used to examine CCTV footage linked to the case was only available to police on a trial period.

The financial advisor appeared before Judge Treasa Kelly at Dublin District Court on Friday with co-defendants Paddy Maher, 57, and 47-year-old John Steadmond

Simon Harris said that ‘a slightly more sensitive approach’ was needed considering some people had no electricity for two weeks.

Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Harris said ‘tariffs are bad for people in the United States of America’

The jury also unanimously found Dunne guilty of violent disorder