2+ hour, 11+ min ago  (354+ words) Victoria Jones, the daughter of the actor Tommy Lee Jones, has been found dead in a San Francisco hotel. Jones (34) was discovered in the early hours of New Year's Day according to TMZ, which cited law enforcement sources. A spokesperson…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (513+ words) Political advisers and staff in the Department of the Taoiseach received close to "500,000 in total in redundancy and severance payments when they had to leave their jobs following the resignation of Leo Varadkar last year. Figures set out in the…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (581+ words) Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Rhys McClenaghan is among a host of well-known names from Northern Ireland recognised in Britain's new year honours list. McClenaghan, from Newtownards in Co Down, becomes an MBE a year after he created history by winning…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (690+ words) Southern Californians are facing an epic clean-up operation after the region's wettest Christmas holiday in recent history turned areas of the state into a panorama of mud and debris. A year ago, record wildfires scorched the dry neighbourhoods of Altadena…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago  (607+ words) A Government briefing note in 1986 stated that it might be cheaper to send cervical smear samples to England to be tested, rather than pay for laboratory staff in Ireland to be trained. Concerns about the cost of cervical smear testing…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (364+ words) Vince Zampella, the co-creator of the Call of Duty video game series, has died aged 55. The head of the video game developer Respawn Entertainment and the co-founder of Infinity Ward was killed in a car crash in California, NBC Los…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (578+ words) A retailers" representative group has lost a High Court challenge to a new licensing fee of up to "1,800 for selling cigarettes, tobacco and nicotine products. The group claimed the figure for the fee was "plucked out of the air" under…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (716+ words) The brother of a man fatally shot by a family member, who opened fire on him with a submachine gun in his own front garden, has said his sibling was a "decent, honest man" who paid the ultimate price for…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (460+ words) A married couple who subjected their six children to ongoing physical and emotional abuse were both jailed today when they appeared at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court in Co Mayo. The accused man was sentenced by Judge Sin'ad McMullan to six…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago  (544+ words) The Central Bank of Ireland has raised doubts over whether the Government will achieve its target of building 300,000 new homes by 2030. In its latest quarterly bulletin, the regulator forecast housing completions would reach 33,500 this year before rising to 37,000, 40,500 and 44,500 in…...