Incident is being investigated by Fiosrú, the police ombudsman

Many believe Russian president’s primary objective unchanged: defeat of Ukraine

Republic’s annual population growth of 1.64% stands at about seven times higher than EU average

Saturday and Sunday evenings will be largely balmy with slight chance of rain

Visits to Ireland were a culture shock at first, but the future Britpop royalty ‘grew to love it’

Independent TD Catherine Connolly is questioned on her views of global affairs

Cabin crew industrial action leaves travellers with few options at short notice

He says he was forced to flee country, where gay relationships are punishable by up to 14 years in jail

Parts of Continent experience near-record temperatures while wild fires ravage southern Europe

Burke (30) challenged a fine arising out of her arrest for filming a coroner and hospital staff, but will not be entitled to compensation

UCC, Galway and Maynooth researchers to investigate modelling and resilience

Linda Boyle (17) was killed 50 years ago in the Bayardo Bar massacre carried out by McFarlane and two others

Historian Michael Barry receives award along with president of Hispano-Irish Association

Detective chief inspector was shot nine times in front of son and suffered life-changing injuries

Money is part of allocation of €696 million announced by Cabinet last week for housing