Last Sunday, during the thunderstorm, a frightened collie in Boyle got loose and went missing

Saoirse Brady, the executive director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust, said prisons are 'overstretched' with a record number of people incarcerated

Here are the biggest stories making headlines this Wednesday.

A total of 22,347 people contacted the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission between January and June.

The Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland said ‘the widening affordability gap is a real concern’.

Gardai maintained a presence at the site late on Tuesday evening.

The PSNI are investigating a gang suspected of trafficking Romanian women for the purpose of sexual exploitation.

The swimmer won gold for Team Ireland in the men’s 800m freestyle final.

The drugs were discovered in a freight container.

The Irish Prison Service said it is working closely with the HSE and has secured extra naloxone kits

The Council states that the proposal cannot be considered in isolation and in the absence of the necessary upgrade to Dublin Airport's external road network, and upgrade to pedestrian or cycle infrastructure along the R108.

The Health and Safety Authority is conducting an investigation.

The incident in Newtownards occurred in the early hours of Saturday.

Elon Musk’s Dublin-based Twitter International UC has been ordered to pay an Irish record unfair dismissal award of €550,131 to a former senior employee

Colm Donnelly (18), a Leaving Certificate student from Tinnock, Gorey, Co Wexford died at St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin on February 14, 2023, five days after the incident in a shed at his home.

The incident happened at around 1pm on Monday at Marlborough Street in the city centre, where thousands had turned out to celebrate the homecoming of the Irish Olympians.

The Health Minister said reforms suggested for UHL had not been fully implemented because the hospital was ‘firefighting’ all the time.

UUP leader Doug Beattie described a resourcing crisis in the Police Service of Northern Ireland

The party said the proposal would cost 127 million euro a year.

The eight common conditions on the initial list include oral thrush, cold sores and UTIs.