A woman who was killed when a pallet containing more than two tonnes of bricks fell from a crane was with a friend and they had just dropped their children off at school, a court heard. Michaela Boor, ...

The world is “on the brink” of extraordinary destabilisation in the Middle East, Ireland’s deputy premier has said. It comes as the EU Foreign Affairs Council has called an emergency meeting to ...

Will a new town council fill a ‘democratic deficit’ or simply add to bills - residents are invited to a public meeting to find out.