Figures from the CSO show that the average electricity bills increased by €124 per year while gas bills decreased by €72 per year

Patients are being reminded that a new Minor Injuries Unit is now open at the site of the Charter Medical Private Hospital in Ballinderry

Gardaí warning the public that checkpoints will be in place across the country over the Christmas.

There have been nine confirmed deaths from the infection among school students in the UK

The teen is currently receiving treatment at University Hospital Limerick where he is in a critical condition.

Ireland would be officially known as the Irish Free State until the new constitution was introduced in 1937.

Leitrim is the only county in the region to have had an application approved

McLoughlin of Torboy, Moydow, Co Longford, still maintains his innocence after a Central Criminal Court jury convicted him last March following a trial in Castlebar, Co Mayo