News from Carlow

Ireland is taking part in a major international cyber defence training exercise which sees a joint Irish and South Korean team of nearly 200 personnel having to deal with critical infrastructure coming under attack from hackers.

25 April 2024

Dáil proceedings have been suspended after Solidarity-People Before Profit TD Mick Barry refused to comply with an instruction from Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl.

25 April 2024

A teacher who quit a secondary school in south Dublin after accusing its principal of retaliating against her for putting her name to a collective staff grievance has called her ex-boss "a corridor angel and an office devil".

25 April 2024

Three men have been arrested in connection with the murder of Josip Strok and a serious assault on another man in Dublin last month.

25 April 2024

Former Republic of Ireland centre-half Charlie Hurley has died at the age of 87.

25 April 2024

A consultant at University Hospital Limerick has said the Emergency Department there was "like a death trap" on the weekend that Aoife Johnston presented at the facility.

25 April 2024

A motorcyclist in his 30s has died in a suspected hit-and-run in Co Carlow.

25 April 2024

Palestinian militant group Hamas has released a video of an Israeli-American man held hostage in Gaza who is seen alive and saying that the captives are living "in hell".

25 April 2024

The power-sharing deal between the SNP and Scottish Greens at Holyrood has been brought to an end, Scotland's first minister Humza Yousaf has said.

25 April 2024

Two of the horses who bolted and ran loose in London yesterday are in a "serious condition", a UK minister has said.

25 April 2024

America's university campuses have been rocked by pro-Palestinian protests, which began at Columbia University in New York last week. Police clash with protestors as US House speaker calls for President Biden to take action

25 April 2024

Venice has begun to charge day-trippers looking to enter the historic Italian city, a world-first intended to ease the pressure of mass tourism.

25 April 2024

More than 100,000 children were denied primary school screening dental appointments last year, according to the Irish Dental Association.

25 April 2024

The blades of the Moulin Rouge windmill, one of the most famous landmarks in Paris, have collapsed during the night without causing any injuries, firefighters have said.

25 April 2024

Delays and flight cancellations are set to impact swathes of Europe today, after authorities failed to reach a deal with some French air traffic control workers to avert a strike.

25 April 2024

Rudy Giuliani, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, is among 18 people charged in Arizona with illegally seeking to claim the state's 2020 electoral votes for the then-US president, in an indictment that names Mr Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator.

24 April 2024

At least five people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah in Gaza, according to hospital officials, as a ship travelling in the Gulf of Aden came under attack.

24 April 2024

The Minister for Justice has said that her department is considering whether or not to build a new prison at Thornton Hall in north county Dublin to deal with chronic overcrowding in the country's jails.

24 April 2024

Language barriers are among the challenges faced by displaced Ukrainians in Ireland when it comes to trying to access employment and education.

24 April 2024

Ireland's young LGBTQI+ population are experiencing significant mental health challenges, according to research by Trinity College Dublin.

24 April 2024