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Seafra O'Donovan, a senior marketing executive at Ireland's largest independent radio group, was charged after a €110,000 cannabis seizure at the company's Dublin offices.

Catherine Nevin claimed that a hooded man had threatened her with a weapon, tied her up, and ransacked the pub, leading to her husband's murder.

Teddy Osayi was a key operative in a romance fraud scheme that resulted in one victim losing €45,000 and twelve others being scammed.

Antonin Panenka's penalty kick has transcended generations, becoming a symbol of creativity and confidence in football, celebrated worldwide for its uniqueness.

Localised flood warning systems may not be fully completed for another 'five to ten years', an Oireachtas Committee has heard. The national flood forecasting and warning service, which will allow the public and local authorities to better prepare against flooding impact, was first agreed in 2016 and came under renewed focus in the aftermath of Storm Chandra.

Four years on from the invasion, we talk to the Ukrainians who have settled in Co Kerry, why they chose to come here, the heartbreaking stories from their homeland, and dealing with the 'small percentage of haters'

They say sport and politics don't mix. Last week's draw placing Ireland alongside the Israel national football team in the UEFA Nations League has been greeted with a shrug from officialdom.

It might have been a moment that caused any Irish person watching to lose capacity for rational thought, and was already the kind of high-stakes circumstance where intensity of emotion overrides everything else, but there was none of that for the man at the centre.

Taoiseach's comments on Friday morning contradict calls from SIPTU, saying FAI members say safety concerns should rule out Israel fixtures

Demand for beauty treatments is soaring. The global aesthetics market is projected to reach €22.9bn by 2028, according to analytics company Clarivate, driven by the development of more natural-looking results and the influence of social media. But how much are Irish women actually spending on such treatments? "It's very hard to find statistics, because they're all private enterprises, so they don't need to release them," says Liz Dwyer (@lizdwyerbeauty), co-founder of the Future Beauty and Health Show, which returns to the RDS on March 21-22 with a line-up of Irish and international experts in aesthetics and longevity.

Current policies and strategies must be tested to see if they are still fit for purpose

Parts of Ireland will remain on flood alert as further rainfall is expected over the next 72 hours after Storm Chandra battered the country. There was near-record flooding on the east coast, which caused millions of euro worth of property damage and left parts of a Wexford town effectively cut off. Gardaí, fire brigade units, council staff and the Civil Defence were deployed in parts of Dublin, Wexford, Wicklow, Waterford and Kilkenny as torrential rainfall resulted in rivers breaking their banks and flood defences being overwhelmed.

The leader of Ireland's largest drugs gang 'The Family' is in garda custody and due to appear in court on Monday morning charged with serious organised crime offences.

Lisa Watson suffers the devastating effects of incontinence daily, and believes mid-urethral surgery, otherwise known as vaginal mesh surgery, could change everything. The surgery was paused in Ireland in 2018, and she is calling for the pause to be lifted By anyone's standards, Lisa Watson is a busy woman. During the week, the Wicklow-based mum of two is a credit union risk manager and at weekends she puts on her make-up artist hat.

There has been a significant increase in wealthy Americans moving to Ireland to escape life under Donald Trump, new figures from the Department of Justice reveal. The number of US citizens granted permission to live here on temporary Stamp O visas has jumped by almost 90pc in only a couple of years. The visas were granted to 387 US citizens last year, nearly double the 204 who were granted Stamp O visas in 2022.

Diplomat Yury Filatov hits out at Helen McEntee and says Ireland is hostile to Russia

Tánaiste Simon Harris has said he "can't see any scenario" in which Ireland could take part in US president Donald Trump's Board of Peace.

The right-wing dating site Whitedate.net, dubbed 'Nazi Tinder', has dozens of members from across Ireland. Only one of those on the site mention love as a motivation, but many mentioned the need to "breed" for the "white race". The site's thousands of profiles were leaked online after a hack, Whitedate's owner says, "there will be repercussions". Some of its 48 users on the island of Ireland, including a 56-year-old woman from Moy and multiple men from Belfast, Derry, and Bangor.

Diabetic retinopathy is an eye condition caused by diabetes that damages the retina's blood vessels and can lead to vision loss if untreated.

Ireland remains cautious about deploying the so-called "big bazooka" economic mechanism against the US, despite Europe moving closer to using the trade weapon in response to threats to take Greenland. Amid reports that Germany is moving towards supporting France in its call for EU member states to ask the European Commission to unleash the Anti-Coercion Instrument, Ireland has remained coy on its position and is instead calling for dialogue to avert an all-out trade war.

If there are two commandments in Irish politics - get thyself elected and mind thy seat - there might be room for another about boosting thy salary. But do government wages in this country need an overhaul?

As I discovered while researching my latest novel, subaquatic sabotage could be easily carried out and we are woefully underprepared The events of the past few weeks - including ­Donald Trump's threats to ­Greenland, the US seizure of a Russian-registered tanker after its encroachment on Irish waters and the severing of ­telecoms cables in the Baltic - have all come together to highlight one of the great vulnerabilities of contemporary Ireland: the fragile cables that connect us all.