Eleanor Burnhill

Police in Hungary have said a 37-year-old Irish man arrested over the death of an American tourist has confessed to her killing, after he tried to conceal her body in a suitcase in a wooded area.

Pharmaceutical company Abbott is opening a new manufacturing facility producing diabetes technology in Kilkenny today which is set to employ more than 800 people, while another 200 jobs will be created at its Donegal plant.

A Dublin gaelscoil has said that many of its pupils, staff and parents remain deeply traumatised as a result of the stabbing attack and subsequent widespread rioting and looting across the capital city last November.

How it started ... With 20 candidates running in Carlow-Kilkenny, it took a long time for the seats to be filled, with no one elected until the eleventh count.

"The crowd loved him the minute he walked out on that stage. He had them!" said entertainer and artist Adele King, best known as Twink, as she reflected on the passing of her good friend Dickie Rock.

The Taoiseach has said he would raise the case of an Irish mother whose children have been kept by their father in Egypt since 2022, when he meets the Egyptian president later.

Taoiseach Simon Harris has said he is satisfied that a very robust and rigorous process has been followed in relation to a major construction contract which is set to be awarded to Invesis, a company controlled by the BAM group.

The funeral is taking place of legendary show band singer Dickie Rock, who died last week at the age of 88.

Fine Gael leader Simon Harris has said that he will meet with the Labour Party this afternoon for what he hopes will be real and meaningful discussions on the formation of the next government.

Ireland's first medically supervised injection facility is due to open its doors this month at Merchant Quay Ireland's Riverbank centre in Dublin city centre.