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Man injured in Longford shooting - RTÉ News
A man has been injured after a shooting incident at a building outside Longford town in the early hours of this morning.
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A leading British gallery is to push the boundaries of visual art with an exhibition of works which cannot be seen.
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A man has been injured after a shooting incident at a building outside Longford town in the early hours of this morning.
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And Octomom thought she had her problems -- a Tennessee man who has fathered 30 children is asking the courts for a break on child support...
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A Tennessee man's problems paying child support aren't so surprising: He has 30 children with 11 different women.
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HE has been the butt of investing jokes for years but Bono will have the last laugh today when his investment in Facebook makes him the world's richest rock star.
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Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi may visit Ireland next month during her first trip abroad in 24 years, the Irish Times has learned.
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A FORMER Fine Gael town councillor has been found guilty of corruptly accepting payments totalling 80,000 from a property developer.
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The jury in the trial of a former Fine Gael town councillor accused of accepting corrupt payments totalling 80,000 relating to the proposed rezoning of 32 hectares of land near Dungarvan in Co...
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A former Fine Gael town councillor has been found guilty of corruptly accepting payments totalling 80,000 from a property developer in Waterford six years ago...
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A former Fine Gael town councillor has been found guilty of corruptly accepting payments totalling 80,000 from a property developer in Waterford six years ago.
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PRETTY Angkookrat Warangnam beat hundreds of women to make it into the final of a modelling competition - and then shocked organisers by revealing she was a man.
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CARDINAL Sean Brady has suffered a new blow after the majority of priests in his diocese snubbed a meeting organised as a show of support for the embattled leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
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Whether you're a Trekkie or not, you have to admit that there's some sense of wonder toexploring the stars andtrying to find life on distant planets. Of course, the U.S.S...
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TANAISTE Eamon Gilmore and the Labour Party have lost one-in-four voters to Sinn Fein and the Independents, the latest Irish Independent/Millward Brown Lansdowne opinion poll reveals.
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TANAISTE Eamon Gilmore and the Labour Party have lost one-in-four voters to Sinn Fein and the Independents, the latest Irish Independent/Millward Brown Lansdowne opinion poll reveals.
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Passengers flying with Ryanair this weekend to the Heineken Cup final will not face a 60 booking fee if they have not checked in online by 4pm today.
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The Taoiseach has been retracing the steps of his grandfather as he officially opened the Loop Head Lighthouse in Clare for the summer season this evening.
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The partner of a man murdered by loyalists 20 years ago is to take legal action against police in Northern Ireland after the force admitted retaining part of the victims skull.
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Two officials at IBRC (formerly Anglo Irish Bank) have brought a High Court challenge over a customers private prosecution against them for alleged deception.
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Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett made moves to appease birthers in his state this week, petitioning the state of Hawaii to confirm the existence of President Barack Obama's long-form birth...
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Spanish energy giant Repsol cancels a contract to provide gas to Argentina, in a continuing row after Buenos Aries nationalised one of its subsidiaries.
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Conservative MP Ted Opitz's federal election win last year in Etobicoke Centre has been declared null and void in a challenge by former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj.
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After all the hype, Facebook's first day as a public company ended where it began. Its stock closed at $38.23, up 23 cents, after pricing Thursday night at $38 per share.
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An amusing letter from former president Ronald Reagan in response to a 13-year-old boy's request for disaster relief funds to clean up his room is making the rounds again on social media, thanks to a...
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Ok folks here we have it your very own personal GPS tracking device. I will be ordering these next week but they are available to purchase now so we don't run out of stock...
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The biggest donor to the Act Party says he gave the money to Don Brash and John Banks so they could stop special treatment for Maori who were either in jail or on welfare.
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WASHINGTON -- The House passed a defense budget Friday that exceeds the deal cut by Congress and President Barack Obama last summer, and that would have to be paid for with cash taken from poverty...
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The House has passed a $642 billion defense bill despite a White House veto threat.
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The King of Bahrain, whose regime has been accused of brutally suppressing pro-democracy demonstrations, will have lunch with Queen Elizabeth II today in celebration of her Diamond Jubilee.
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Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has said he has been approached by two funds worth 500 million each proposing to invest in primary care facilities in Ireland.
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THE ex-Fine Gael mayor on trial for corruption lived a 'Walter Mitty' life and was part of a story of sordid jealousy, anger and rage, a jury heard yesterday.
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A SYNDICATE of banks, that provided funds to Sean Dunne companies towards acquiring two hotels in Ballsbridge for 400m, is pursuing the developer for more than 163m.
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A TOURISM drive to attract the Irish Diaspora back home should be expanded to encourage those with Ulster Scots roots to make the trip, Martin McGuinness has told the Assembly.
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COLM Sharkey left Ireland three years ago after attending a jobs fair here -- and he does not plan to return home.
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Lower house of Congress authorises military action if US and its allies are threatened by nuclear weapons.
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While delivering a graduation speech at Georgetown University, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was heckled by an anti-abortion supporter.
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WASHINGTON -- A judge may have found unconstitutional the law that allows people to be held indefinitely without trial by the military, but the House of Representatives voted Friday to keep it anyway...
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The House beat back an unusual coalition of liberal and conservative lawmakers and approved a contentious $642 billion Pentagon policy bill.
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Minister for Enterprise Richard Bruton has been forced to admit causing confusion by the way he dealt badly with a question during a debate on the fiscal treaty.
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WASHINGTON -- In an all-out broadside against the current state of campaign finance, Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) submitted a brief on Friday morning urging the U.S...
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A RANGER, due to celebrate his 22nd birthday today, was laid to rest with military honours in Cork yesterday after he was killed accidentally in a training exercise in the UK.
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UK PM David Cameron warns French President Francois Hollande that Britain will not accept a Europe-wide financial transaction tax, saying it is not a "sensible measure".
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Rare annular eclipse visible from western U.S.