A number of people had to be rescued from the building in Drogheda on Friday night.

A young girl who was struck on the hand by a car in Co Donegal just days before Christmas in 2023 has been awarded €25,000

Police said the man, aged in his 30s, was taken to hospital for injuries that are not believed to be life threatening.

They included three children under 10 years of age.

The number of callouts dropped from 63 incidents on the same night in 2024.

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Gardaí and emergency services were alerted shortly after 11:30pm after a car struck a pedestrian at Peake, on the Tuam Road in Loughgeorge.

Declan Daly (54) of Cassidy Apartments, Kells, Co. Meath pleaded guilty before his trial to 12 counts of sexual assault and indecent assault against three female victims on dates between 1982 and 2002. He was convicted at trial of three counts of raping a further victim in 2022.

Maxwell Itumelang Mosia (34) of Cherry Orchard Drive, Ballyfermot, Dublin 10, pleaded guilty before he went on trial for more serious offences, the court heard.

A man in his 20s was found unresponsive on McGee Terrace at approximately 3:15 am and later died in the hospital.

A report by the Office of the Inspector of Prisons into the death of Edward Woodland (23) in Limerick Prison on January 12th 2023, found several large gaps between checks on the prisoner.

In Northern Ireland, councillors are set to debate a proposal in November to change the name of Prince Andrew Way in the coastal Co Antrim town of Carrickfergus.

Stuart Tighe (33) and another man had also targeted the same victim just days before the attack in an attempted carjacking outside his place of work but were foiled in their efforts.

Figures released on Friday by the Department for Housing show that while men still account for the majority of homeless adults, the gap is narrowing

South Belfast is among the worst-affected areas with Laganbank Road described as ‘not passable’.

Even modern-day Halloween traditions, like wearing costumes and carving pumpkins, come from ancient Samhain practices.

It follows a staff engagement survey carried out for RTÉ by an external contractor last May, which canvassed the views of more than 1,300 workers.

The Kilkenny native had been due to be sentenced on Wednesday but a sick note was handed into the court by defence counsel and Judge Martin Nolan was told that Carey was not present.

The 24-year-old man also threatened to publish intimate images of the then 20-year-old woman, and at one point, when she managed to move out of the house eight months later, he sent her almost 5,000 text messages over a four-day period

Ruth Lawrence (46), who is originally from Clontarf in Dublin but with an address at Patricks Cottage, Ross, Mountnugent in Co Meath has pleaded not guilty to murdering Anthony Keegan (33) and Eoin O'Connor (32).