A violent drug dealer has admitted intimidating and threatening drug users and their families and telling them his victims would be raped and murdered if they did not pay him tens of thousands of euro in cash.

A Stormont department should have considered all "reasonably practical means" to prevent access to a culvert close to where Noah Donohoe's body was found, a safety expert has told an inquest.

A man who sexually abused his two young cousins while he was babysitting has been jailed for nine years.

The captain of the hantavirus-hit cruise ship has praised the crew and passengers for how they managed on board.

Offaly hurler Charlie Mitchell is recovering in hospital after becoming unwell following their draw with Kilkenny in the Leinster Hurling Championship on Sunday.

For 40 years, The George has been at the heart of Dublin's LGBTQ+ community - a place of friendship, freedom and belonging through decades of historic change.

An 18-year-old student from Ireland has been named as the European winner of a global environmental sustainability competition.

An active and healthy woman who was diagnosed with high blood pressure has urged people to have their BP checked.

Follow live developments as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech that says rebuilding relations with the rest of Europe will be his government's defining mission.

The Medical Board at University Hospital Limerick has warned that the risks to patient care at the hospital "remain intolerable and unacceptable".

The co-founder of NoMac Productions, one of the dozens of businesses severely impacted by a fire at a business centre in Waterford city, has said she does not believe her business will reopen following the blaze.

Two Irish women who were on board a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak are in good health and showing no symptoms of the virus, the Interim Chief Medical Officer has said.