Marc O'Driscoll

A former school welfare officer and army cadet leader from Co Down has been jailed for 18 months for sexually assaulting teenage girls.

Dundalk Grammar School will introduce Gaelic football for senior cycle students from next year.

Gardaí are this morning continuing to question a woman in connection with the murder of missing schoolboy Kyran Durnin.

A woman arrested by gardaí investigating the disappearance and murder of missing schoolboy Kyran Durnin has been released without charge.

The search of a property at a housing estate and its adjoining gardens in Drogheda, Co Louth in connection with the disappearance and murder of schoolboy Kyran Durnin enters a second day today.

Four women are due in court in Drogheda later charged with laundering money for one of the two feuding criminal gangs in the North East.

Four women have been in court charged with money laundering offences in relation to the Drogheda feud.

A man arrested last week in connection with the suspected murder of schoolboy Kyran Durnin has been found dead.

A man has died in a house fire in Virginia in Co Cavan.

Crowds will gather at Newgrange in Co Meath this morning for the Winter Solstice - the astronomical phenomenon that marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year.