A male driver of one of the cars was pronounced dead at the scene.

She was aged in her 50s and was found dead at a house in Portlaoise on Sunday.

Former swim coach George Gibney being found guilty of indecent assault and attempted rape features strongly on Irish front pages on Tuesday.

Helen McEntee said she was looking forward to meeting accomplished Saudi women and graduates of Irish universities.

A man in his 30s has been arrested as part of the investigation into the fatal shooting of a man in Dún Laoghaire in Dublin

The drugs will be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis

The proposed redevelopment of Ferrybank Shopping Centre is now expected to go ahead

Pico Lopes said it was ‘amazing’ to have put Cape Verde on the map through their World Cup matches.

The forecaster said the high temperatures will occur this week lasting into next week with heatwave conditions expected.

An Coimisiún Pleanála puts back decision on €5.9bn River Shannon water extraction project for up to one year as "further consideration of case" required

Keith Hall set fire to a car shortly after being released from prison over killing of a 16-year-old girl

The 68-year-old Donegal man was convicted after a trial at the Central Criminal Court of 16 offences

Mr Warfield and then-Liveline host Joe Duffy clashed during an on-air discussion about the Wolfe Tones song, Celtic Symphony

Gibney (now 77) appeared in court in a wheelchair - a much-diminished figure from the coach who once dominated the world of Irish swimming

Decades after he first abused young swimmers under his care, a Central Criminal Court jury today found Gibney, guilty of 39 counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted rape

A man in his 70s remains in Garda custody following the fatal assault of a Romanian woman in Co Laois on Sunday

A quarter of asylum claims refused under a new fast-track scheme have been issued with deportation orders

A man in his 50s was arrested in Cork on foot of a European Arrest Warrant from Germany

The 35-year-old was convicted following a Central Criminal Court trial in May of two counts of rape, 10 sample counts of sexual assault and one count of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.

The Central Criminal Court was previously told at a sentencing hearing for Tomasz Rozpeda that no one knows "exactly what happened" on the night Maciej Nowak (32) was killed and that both men had consumed "substances to excess".