Taoiseach Enda Kenny has responded to criticism of remarks he made yesterday, when he blamed Ireland's economic collapse on a "mad borrowing frenzy".
The Taoiseach is under fire after claiming the economic collapse and the dire state of the economy was a result of "people going mad" during the boom.
The alleged rape of a woman in her Monaghan home has been described as a “drunken orgy” by a defence counsel for one of the accused men.
State prosecutors have been asked to examine the case of veteran Republican Sean Garland to determine whether he should be charged with an alleged US super-dollar forgery plot.
US ratings agency Fitch says it is downgrading the credit ratings of five countries that use the euro, including economic heavyweights Italy and Spain.
Families have returned to the UK's largest illegal travellers site in Essex in defiance of a British High Court order.
Rory McIlroy promised never to make the same mistake again after a two-shot penalty cost him a share of the halfway lead at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship today.
Daniel Majstorovic is back in Celtic’s squad for Sunday’s Scottish Communities League Cup semi-final against Falkirk at Hampden.
The Central Statistics Office has issued retail sales figures for December 2011 that show that the value of retail sales (excluding the motor trade) increased by 1% in December 2011 compared to December 2010.
IT must have seemed like a good idea at the time, when a video using material from a dashboard camera in a taxi was uploaded to Facebook and YouTube showing a guy jumping out of his car without paying his fare.
Ger McCarthy
You can never watch enough El Clasico’s
WEDNESDAY night’s Copa Del Ray quarter final second leg between Barcelona and Real Madrid at the Camp Nou delivered one of the most intense, high octane, action-packed and downright mad El Clasico’s of the season.
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