News from Offaly

The Irish Farmers Association has said that seeking to reduce environmental emissions by cutting farm production, would amount to "national sabotage".

22 January 2025

As Ireland braces itself to feel the full force of Storm Éowyn, Met Éireann have warned the latest weather front could bring with it a possible "danger to life" as it issues a Status Red wind warning.

22 January 2025

Property prices rose by 9.4% in the 12-month period to last November, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office.

22 January 2025

The UN Secretary General has praised the contribution of US President Donald Trump for "robust diplomacy" in helping to bring about the Gaza ceasefire.

22 January 2025

A 26-year-old man who fatally shot his ex-girlfriend and her sister with a crossbow before stabbing their mother to death in England last summer has pleaded guilty to their murders.

22 January 2025

Britain's Prince Harry has settled his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers (NGN) over alleged unlawful information gathering, his lawyer has said, after the media group admitted he had been the victim of unlawful activity.

22 January 2025

A Palestinian official reported shooting and explosions in the flashpoint West Bank town of Jenin as Israeli forces pressed a raid that the military described as a "counter terrorism" operation.

22 January 2025

The days when governments take shape are charged with a unique energy and today will be no exception, writes Mícheál Lehane.

22 January 2025

Status Red and Orange wind warnings have been issued, with Met Éireann warning of a possible "danger to life" as Storm Éowyn is expected to bring "damaging and destructive" winds.

22 January 2025

Four people who were arrested by gardaí investigating the murder of William Moorehouse in Bray have been released without charge.

22 January 2025

Politics, at its core, is all about survival and few can argue that Micheál Martin is anything other than a survivor.

22 January 2025

Follow developments live as they happen as Micheál Martin is set to become Taoiseach this afternoon, and Cabinet ministers to be announced later.

22 January 2025

Netflix said it added nearly 19 million subscribers during Christmas to finish out last year with more than 300 million subscribers.

22 January 2025

US President Donald Trump has called a Washington bishop "nasty" and demanded an apology, after she told him from the pulpit that he was sowing fear among the country's immigrants and LGBTQ people.

22 January 2025

Nepal is to increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world's tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials have said.

22 January 2025

Turkey has detained nine people, including the owner of the hotel, in connection with a deadly fire that claimed the lives of 76 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in the west of the country, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.

22 January 2025

Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol were freed, after the new president pardoned more than 1,500 people, including some who assaulted police officers.

22 January 2025

Two men have been arrested in Derry in connection with the investigation into the serious assault of a man in his 20s in Lifford, Co Donegal.

22 January 2025

Elections all done, counting concluded and negotiations complete, the day has finally arrived for the Dáil to elect a Taoiseach. So how will events unfold?

22 January 2025

Fianna Fáil Leader Micheál Martin is set to be nominated as Taoiseach by the Dáil before being formally appointed to the office by President Michael D Higgins.

22 January 2025