News from Ballinasloe

Elon Musk has said his artificial intelligence startup xAI is buying his social networking platform X in a deal valuing the company once known as Twitter at $33 billion.

28 March 2025

Britain's defence ministry has launched an urgent investigation after a football fan found piles of sensitive military papers strewn across a street in northern England.

28 March 2025

Uisce Éireann has said that the new housing targets included in the Programme for Government for the completion of 300,000 new housing units by 2030 present several challenges and that it is seeking additional support from the Government to address these.

28 March 2025

The cousin of Private Seán Rooney, who was killed while on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon in December 2022, has hailed his late relative for helping him achieve a career "milestone", after he was among a number of Defence Forces members commissioned this afternoon.

28 March 2025

Half of the Sun is expected to disappear during a partial solar eclipse tomorrow morning, according to the Irish Astronomical Association.

28 March 2025

Irish authors have joined forces to campaign against the alleged use of their copyrighted work to train Meta AI models.

28 March 2025

Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney has told US President Donald Trump that his government will impose retaliatory tariffs on American goods from 2 April, when sweeping US levies come into place.

28 March 2025

The brother of a woman who died after her throat was cut in a "single swipe" has told Cork Central Criminal Court that she wanted a divorce but her husband had told him that he would "not let her go".

28 March 2025

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kyiv formally received a new minerals deal proposal from Washington giving US access to Ukrainian natural resources in exchange for further military support.

28 March 2025

A trial in which two teenagers are charged with raping a girl in a car at Limerick Racecourse over the Christmas period in 2022 was only a matter of minutes into evidence today when one of the accused collapsed in the dock.

28 March 2025

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake which struck Myanmar this morning has been detected by seismic instruments stationed in Ireland.

28 March 2025

The number of people homeless and living in emergency accommodation has climbed to another record high, and now stands at 15,378.

28 March 2025

Israel said it will strike anywhere in Lebanon it sees a threat after rocket fire prompted it to bomb Beirut for the first time during the fragile four-month-old truce with Hezbollah.

28 March 2025

Electric Picnic has announced five headline acts for this year's festival, including acclaimed American singer-songwriter Chappell Roan and Irish superstar Hozier.

28 March 2025

The High Court has approved a settlement of €2 million in the case of a woman who fell while alone in a toilet cubicle a day-and-a-half after surgery to remove a tumour from the base of her skull.

28 March 2025

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the Government's "over-arching priority" is to protect Irish jobs amid concerns US President Donald Trump's incoming tariff plans could see pharmaceutical and other firms reduce their presence in Ireland.

28 March 2025

The number of visitors coming to Ireland in February of this year sank by 30% compared to the same time last year, new figures from Central Statistics Office show.

28 March 2025

US President Donald Trump has said that the United States needs to take over Greenland for "world peace," as he doubled down on his ambitions to annex the strategically placed, resource-rich Danish territory.

28 March 2025

A powerful earthquake centred in Myanmar has rocked southeast Asia, killing more than 140 people in that country, according to state media, and toppling buildings across a wide area.

28 March 2025

Families who have lost loved ones in road traffic collisions have launched a new initiative to raise awareness about the emotional impact of sharing images, videos or details on social media before families have been officially notified.

28 March 2025