Olivia Kelleher

Tánaiste Simon Harris has defended the Government after the Chair of the European Parliament's Housing Committee described Ireland's housing crisis as amongst the “most severe” and “most complicated” in Europe on Thursday.

The family spoke out as the inquest concluded today The family of one of two men who died during the swim section of an Ironman event in

The family say there has been a “serious lack of accountability” for Cork County Council, Ironman and Traithlon Ireland.

Her parents Tom and Violet held hands and raised them aloft as they crossed the finish line in the half-marathon.

The parents of a young woman who died not long after she reached the finish line in the Cork City Marathon last year took part in the event on Sunday in her memory.

He hit her with the whip while she was holding an infant A man who struck his wife with a livestock whip when she was holding an infant in

He texted girl: 'I could kidnap you' A 63-year-old sports coach who was convicted of the rape and sexual assault of two teenage girls who were 40 years younger than him has been jailed for 14 years.

The man subjected his wife to 'relentless and torturous' physical and verbal abuse for two decades, including punching her in the face and knocking her down while pregnant, the court in Cork heard

The trial is expected to last up to five weeks. A 21-YEAR-OLD MAN and two teenagers have gone on trial charged with the murder of a postman