Connolly is an independent politician who has served as a TD for the Galway West constituency since 2016.

The court heard the man was a registered sex offender and failed to notify gardaí about his change of address.

The complainant told the jury she lived with her mother, uncle and three other adult relatives when she was a child.

The rail operator dealt with hundreds of incidents of deliberate damage in 2024 with train windows smashed in and lights broken.

It comes after figures indicated that one in four pubs in Ireland have closed in the past 20 years.

The two female nurses were praised for wading into the sea to rescue the siblings who had been caught out by the rising tide.

Freya Tobin of Lynch Terrace in Newcastle was due to start first year in a local secondary school next September.

Met Éireann has warned this could lead to lightning damage.

A survey of 2,000 people found nearly four-in-five are now waiting longer to get an appointment with their GP.

The full-scale excavation of the site of St Mary’s mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway will try to identify the remains of infants who died.

He is due to appear before Dublin District Court at the Criminal Courts of Justice on Monday.

US President Donald Trump said he would impose even higher import taxes if either of the US trading partners decided to retaliate.

226 patients are waiting in the emergency department, while 138 are in wards elsewhere in hospitals.

A teenager is in critical condition in hospital in following a crash in Co Galway on Sunday

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The service said the aim of the strategy is to evolve it into a ‘genuinely bilingual organisation’

The minister is to take part in a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council on Trade in Brussels on Monday.

The visual overhaul of the broadcaster's weather reports is the first in over eight years.

High Court president, Mr Justice David Barniville, granted an application by the Medical Council for the suspension of the GP who has worked as a family doctor for around 35 years.

Despite the mercury hitting highs above 31 degrees on Saturday, the weather is set to change as we enter a new week