News from Bettystown

The mother and daughter who died in a road collision in Co Donegal have been named locally as six-year-old Ella McLaughlin and her mother Natalie McLaughlin, who was in her 20s.

04 July 2025

Mourners are set to gather to honour Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota at a wake in Portugal on Friday morning, a local parish priest has said.

04 July 2025

UK police are investigating Bob Vylan's Glastonbury performance — but what does the law actually say about protest, free speech, and hate crime?

04 July 2025

New figures show record numbers of air passengers passed through both Dublin Airport and Cork Airport last month.

04 July 2025

There has been no immediate breakthrough in the EU-US trade negotiations, according to the EU's trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič, while Donald Trump plans to start sending letters informing trading partners of their tariff rates as soon as today.

04 July 2025

Oasis will kickstart their long-awaited worldwide reunion tour in Cardiff tonight, their first concert in almost 16 years.

04 July 2025

An Irish veterans charity is calling on former Defence Forces members who fought in Ukraine to come forward for support.

04 July 2025

Peter's first near death experience got him used to the idea that, from now on, it was going to be a regular occurrence.

04 July 2025

US President Donald Trump boasted of a "phenomenal victory" to cheering supporters at a rally in Iowa after Congress narrowly passed his signature tax and spending bill, cementing his radical second-term agenda.

04 July 2025

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the aim of the Occupied Territories Bill must be to apply pressure on Israel to end the war in Gaza, rather than "disadvantage Ireland unduly".

04 July 2025

Ireland emitted 54 million tonnes of climate polluting greenhouse gases last year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency - 2% lower than in 2023.

04 July 2025

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said it has been "an honour" to visit Hiroshima.

03 July 2025

60% of US multinationals that are members of the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland plan to increase employee numbers here over the next year.

03 July 2025

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Harris is in Berlin to meet with his new German counterpart Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Johann Wadephul.

03 July 2025

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has said it supports proposals for a common digital majority age across EU member states.

03 July 2025

A recruitment campaign aimed at hiring 300 new prison officers in full-time positions is under way.

03 July 2025

US Republicans have passed a major legislative package, dubbed the "One Big Beautiful Bill," giving President Donald Trump the biggest legislative victory of his second term.

03 July 2025

The Public Accounts Committee is seeking an update from the Revenue Commissioners on how much longer it will take to dispose of a ship on which a major consignment of drugs was seized in 2023.

03 July 2025

A former cathaoirleach of Cavan County Council has pleaded guilty to the theft of money from a Co Meath charity.

03 July 2025

If Dublin do the unthinkable – again – and make it to the final, there'll be a cohort of Cork people watching in three weeks' time, in Phibsboro and Rathfarnham, from Dalkey to Portmarnock, who'll have to put the disappointment of another year of waiting behind them.

01 July 2025