News from Westmeath

The Irish theatre company Fishamble has put out a plea to the public to try and retrieve an Olivier Award which was stolen from their Dublin offices on Saturday night.

22 October 2024

Taoiseach Simon Harris has said the general election will happen "within the next number of short weeks", but did not indicate what date that will be.

22 October 2024

Disgraced former film producer Harvey Weinstein has been diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia, a rare form of cancer that affects bone marrow and white blood cells, according to US reports.

22 October 2024

A 24-year-old man has been charged in relation to an investigation into a hit-and-run incident in Dublin at the weekend.

22 October 2024

The family of a Dublin teenager who died from sepsis nearly seven years ago are aiming to spread awareness about the life-threatening condition, which impacts more than 14,000 people in Ireland every year.

22 October 2024

A woman has been arrested after a 30-year-old man died following an assault at a house in Carlow last night.

22 October 2024

A search operation is being carried out a house in Co Louth as part of the investigation into the disappearance of eight-year-old Kyran Durnin.

22 October 2024

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is to test new uses of facial recognition technology to detect and stop scammers from misusing the images of celebrities and public figures for fake ads.

22 October 2024

The Government has been accused of being "out of touch" with the challenges facing young people in Ireland.

22 October 2024

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her Republican rival, Donald Trump, delivered radically different messages while on the US campaign trail yesterday, as they sought to win over undecided voters in the two weeks before election day.

22 October 2024

A man has died following a collision between two trains in Wales, British Transport Police have said.

22 October 2024

The Tánaiste has said that it would be challenging to pass the Occupied Territories Bill, which aims to ban trade between Ireland and Israel's illegal settlements on Palestinian land, during the lifetime of the Government.

22 October 2024

Hezbollah said it had launched volleys of rockets at two key bases near Tel Aviv and a naval base west of Haifa, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arriving in Israel to begin another push for an ceasefire.

22 October 2024

The State is transferring the first in a series of annual payments into a fund set up to invest windfall gains from taxing multinationals.

21 October 2024

The proportion of 13-year-olds who have a disability has increased by 17% in the decade up to 2022, according to research by the Economic and Social Research Institute.

21 October 2024

SIPTU has called for the establishment of a dedicated public transport police service to combat abuse, violence and anti-social behaviour on buses, trains and trams.

21 October 2024

The European Parliament is set to approve a loan of up to €35 billion for Ukraine, which will be repaid using revenues from frozen Russian assets.

21 October 2024

Homeless numbers will continue to increase unless the housing crisis is brought under control, a charity has warned, as latest figures show there was a reduction in the number of properties within the HAP rate available to rent.

21 October 2024

Progress on cutting Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions continued during the first three months of the year with an overall reduction of 2.2% in emissions compared with the same period in 2023, according to a new quarterly emissions report from the Environmental Protection Agency.

21 October 2024

The leaders of the three Government parties have agreed that the general election will take place in 2024.

21 October 2024