News from Drogheda

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) Awards are taking place at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre tonight with the RTÉ crime drama KIN and the psychological thriller Lies We Tell leading this year's nominations.

20 April 2024

The mayor of a mining town in violence-riddled Ecuador was shot dead, the second such killing in days ahead of a weekend referendum on tougher measures against organised crime.

20 April 2024

Telecoms company Eir discovered the expression that there's no such thing as bad publicity doesn't always ring true.

20 April 2024

The Taoiseach Simon Harris is to meet the families of the victims of the Stardust fire.

20 April 2024

The United States has agreed to withdraw its more than 1,000 troops from Niger, officials said, upending its posture in West Africa where the country was home to a major drone base.

20 April 2024

A Ukrainian drone strike overnight killed two people in Russia's Belgorod region, its governor said.

20 April 2024

Iran's foreign minister has said the Iranian government is investigating an overnight attack yesterday on Iran, adding that so far a link to Israel had not been proven as he downplayed the strike.

20 April 2024

Members of the Green Party will gather in Dublin tomorrow for their convention.

19 April 2024

A man set himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump's historic hush-money trial was taking place, but he did not appear to have been targeting Trump, officials said.

19 April 2024

A tribunal has awarded €30,000 to Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue's former ministerial driver who was subject to 'egregious treatment' when he was let go on Christmas Day to make way for a garda to replace him on security grounds.

19 April 2024

A judge has ruled in a Confirmation celebration dispute between estranged parents that their children have their main course with their mother and then have their dessert with their father in different rooms at a hotel after the event.

19 April 2024

The Labour Party's former small business spokesperson Juliet O'Connell underpaid a Bolivian seamstress who said she resigned out of fear of being deported, a tribunal has noted in awarding the worker over €11,000 for multiple breaches of her employment rights.

19 April 2024

Threats and intimidation towards public representatives undermine democracy, Minister for Integration Roderic O'Gorman has said after a group of protesters wearing masks gathered outside his home last night.

19 April 2024

None of the soldiers who gave evidence to the Bloody Sunday inquiry will face perjury charges over their testimony to the tribunal.

19 April 2024

Forty-one families who sued the Hyde & Seek crèche chain in north Dublin over the alleged treatment of their children have settled their cases for €15,000 each at the High Court, bringing the total sum awarded to €615,000.

19 April 2024

NATO countries have agreed to give Ukraine more air defences after desperate pleas for advanced systems to shoot down Russian attacks, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg has said.

19 April 2024

Taoiseach Simon Harris will meet with the families of the Stardust victims tomorrow, with a view to issuing a State apology at the earliest opportunity.

19 April 2024

The latest AA Ireland fuel price survey shows that petrol and diesel prices have hit their highest level so far this year.

19 April 2024

While Children's Health Ireland disputes Sinn Féin's claims behind figures on hospital appointments, and the arguments about what makes a cancellation or not, there are individuals, families and children awaiting lifesaving cancer care but experiencing delays and cancellations.

19 April 2024

A motorist was detected travelling at 194km/h in a 100km/h zone on the N25 in Cork today during National Slow Down Day.

19 April 2024