News from Waterford

The parents of 16-year-old Aoife Johnston, who died from meningitis following a lengthy wait for treatment at UHL emergency department, have said they hope no other family experiences what they have gone through, and that action is taken to address problems at the hospital.

25 April 2024

A man has appeared in court accused of taking possession of a submachine gun used in an attack at a west Dublin restaurant on Christmas Eve.

25 April 2024

A witness in the trial of a man accused of 121 sex offences against young boys has broken down in tears as he described to a jury how he was allegedly raped when he was ten or 11 years old.

25 April 2024

Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified at Donald Trump's criminal trial that he sought to silence a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr Trump for fear it would hurt his 2016 presidential bid.

25 April 2024

The Garda Commissioner has said he has asked officers to re-visit files regarding the Stardust disaster in which 48 people died.

25 April 2024

Taoiseach Simon Harris has said he believes that legislation is necessary to "fix" the situation where people seek asylum in Ireland having previously been granted it in the UK.

25 April 2024

The family of a 41-year-old woman who died of cervical cancer has settled a High Court action over the alleged misreporting over a cervical smear test three years earlier.

25 April 2024

Jailed teacher Enoch Burke's High Court defamation action over a newspaper report when he was in prison for contempt for the first time in 2022 is to be heard next week.

25 April 2024

Gardaí have identified more than 25 Irish children who have been victims of online child abuse material in the first three months of the year, a Policing Authority meeting has been told.

25 April 2024

Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction for sexual assault and rape has been overturned by New York's highest court, reopening the landmark case.

25 April 2024

A robot capable of mimicking human facial expressions has been developed by engineers at Columbia University in the US.

25 April 2024

A jury at the Central Criminal Court in Cork has found a teenager guilty of the manslaughter of a 29-year old man at a housing estate in Carrigaline in December 2022.

25 April 2024

Lauren Gaffney, who developed an eating disorder in her early teens and was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa while in transition year, is struggling to get the help she needs.

25 April 2024

Ireland has taken part in a major international cyber defence training exercise involving critical infrastructure coming under simulated attacks from hackers.

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

A verdict of medical misadventure has been returned at the inquest into the death of Aoife Johnston. The Limerick Coroner John McNamara delivered his verdict after four days of evidence at Kilmallock Courthouse.

25 April 2024

The man who was killed in a suspected hit-and-run in Co Carlow has been named as Tom Connors.

25 April 2024

Around 100,000 children are not getting the required dental treatment because of a "ludicrous" recruitment embargo imposed by the Government, according to Sinn Féin.

25 April 2024

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned, his office said, as a transitional council took power with the aim of returning stability to a country where gang violence has caused chaos and misery.

25 April 2024

A Palestinian civil defence team called on the United Nations to investigate what it said were war crimes at a Gaza hospital, as it said nearly 400 bodies were recovered from mass graves after Israeli soldiers departed the complex.

24 April 2024