News from Kilkenny

Fears of upheaval in the AI gold rush rocked Wall Street following the emergence of a popular ChatGPT-like model from China, with US President Donald Trump saying it was a "wake-up call" for Silicon Valley.

28 January 2025

The share of Irish job postings on hiring platform Indeed offering remote or hybrid work rose to a record high at the end of December 2024.

28 January 2025

The impact of Brexit will become increasingly evident on the island of Ireland as the UK diverges from the EU, a new report has warned.

28 January 2025

A public inquiry into the murders of 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, in the Omagh bombing in 1998 will get under way in the town today.

28 January 2025

Convicted murderer John Crerar, who evaded justice for two decades, has died while serving a life sentence for killing 23-year-old Phyllis Murphy in 1979.

27 January 2025

Some of the worst affected areas by Storm Éowyn have been in the west of Ireland, where major clean-up operations are under way.

27 January 2025

Denmark has announced it would spend 14.6 billion Danish Kroner (€1.9bn) on boosting its military presence in the Arctic, following renewed interest by US President Donald Trump in controlling Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory.

27 January 2025

A scoping investigation into governance at An Bord Pleanála has found there were no sufficient grounds to refer matters to the Minister for Housing to determine if there was "stated misbehaviour".

27 January 2025

The HSE has announced external reviews into the delivery of nine babies at Portiuncula University Hospital.

27 January 2025

Businessman Denis O'Brien has been ordered to produce documents for inspection in a case taken against him over the award of the second mobile telephone licence to his company Esat Digifone in the mid-1990s.

27 January 2025

A mother of a primary school student who has been to school on only nine days in the current school year has said that she thought it ridiculous that a child of his age be expected to be in bed before midnight, a court has heard.

27 January 2025

The Government Chief Whip Mary Butler will table a proposal on Thursday to try to resolve the dispute over the allotted Dáil speaking time for Regional Independents, which delayed the nomination of the Taoiseach last week.

27 January 2025

It is understood MMA fighter Conor McGregor has deleted copies of CCTV footage shown to the jury in a civil action taken against him by Nikita Hand.

27 January 2025

A young boy who died in a drowning incident in a swimming pool in a hotel in Offaly three years ago had removed his armbands shortly after getting into the water, an inquest has heard.

27 January 2025

A woman who was raped by her older brother when she was a child disclosed the abuse to her family on the night of the Late Late Toy Show in 2020 because she could not face another Christmas with him at the table.

27 January 2025

Israeli Ambassador to Ireland Dana Erlich has claimed President Michael D Higgins "politicised" yesterday's Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration in Dublin.

27 January 2025

Gardaí are investigating a suspected case of people smuggling following the discovery of nine men in a container at Rosslare Europort.

27 January 2025

The government of Hamas in Gaza said that "more than 300,000 displaced" Palestinians had returned to the territory's north after Israel's military authorised the returns from this morning.

27 January 2025

Around 180,000 premises remain without power while 74,000 people are without water as clean-up and restoration operations continue in the wake of Storm Éowyn.

27 January 2025

Some of the few remaining survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau have returned to the Nazi-German concentration and death camp, condemning a "huge rise" in antisemitism on the 80th anniversary of its liberation.

27 January 2025