He who is slient, is strongest.

Eight men, who were arrested following an incident at Glengad in Co Mayo today, have been released without charge.

Investigators are trying to determine the cause of yesterday's air crash in Madrid which killed over 150 people.

Two suicide bombers have killed 59 workers at Pakistan's main army munitions factory. 67 people were injured in the explosions.

Reports of poor care and allegations of abuse at a number of nursing homes in Donegal, Cork and Kerry have been obtained by RTÉ News.

An Irish entry was one of four horses banned from competing in today's Olympic show jumping competition for doping.

Russia has begun pulling tanks and troops back over its frontier, pledging all forces would leave Georgia by tomorrow night

Gardaí have renewed their appeal for a Dublin woman who has been missing for a year.

The PSNI has confirmed that a taser stun gun was used by one of its officers at the weekend.

Former rock star Gary Glitter has agreed to leave Thailand and return to the UK.

A final draft of a military pact governing US forces in Iraq will be presented to the war-torn country's highest authorities tomorrow.

The Govt says the IDA has lined up a number of foreign direct investment projects to offset recent job losses.

Three men have been arrested after drugs worth nearly €500,000 were seized in Dublin.

A 36-year-old man has appeared in court charged in connection with the death of a woman in Roscommon earlier this week.

Supposed Bigfoot remains revealed last week to a sceptical public have turned out to be a rubber gorilla suit.

Tá dícháiliú déanta ar an marcach, Denis Lynch ag na Cluichí Oilimpeacha mar gur theip a chapall tástáil drugaí.

An oral hearing into a proposed meat and bonemeal incinerator for Co Meath has been postponed by An Bord Pleanála.

The Govt has said that within two years no homeless person will have to sleep rough or stay longer than six months in emergency accommodation.

A woman has been killed after a giant globe fell on her head in Co Donegal.

Two men are being questioned by police in connection with a series of kidnappings in Northern Ireland.

153 people were killed after a plane veered from its take-off flight path and crashed at Madrid-Barajas airport.