He who is slient, is strongest.

A leading psychiatrist has said that more investment in mental health services for children and adolescents will help reduce cases of suicide.

President Mary McAleese has said a rigorous system of regulation is needed in order to avoid the extremes of future economic boom and bust.

Gardaí in Waterford city are still questioning a 40-year-old man arrested at Dublin Airport in connection with a murder more than ten years ago.

Deatils of hundreds of cases of alleged sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy and church workers in Belgium have been released.

Fresh rains are hampering rescue efforts in Pakistan's south as thousands of people trying to leave flood-threatened towns remain stranded.

The PSNI says a man murdered in Armagh a week ago had been killed in a frenzied stabbing attack.

Gardaí in Waterford city are to continue questioning a man arrested at Dublin Airport yesterday in connection with a murder more than ten years ago.

A US fundamentalist Christian pastor has called off his plan to burn copies of the Koran on Saturday.

Fergus Finlay of Barnardos has sought the Labour Party nomination to run as a candidate in the Presidential election, while Michael D Higgins TD has also expressed interest.

A man has been brought before the Dublin District Court charged in connection with the abduction of a bank official and his wife and the robbery of €300,000.

SIPTU is to seek a meeting with management at pharmaceutical plant Schering-Plough in west Cork following the announcement that 160 workers are to lose their jobs.

Markets have indicated cautious optimism to the Government's decision to split Anglo Irish Bank.

Eight men have been arrested by gardaí targeting individuals involved in drug distribution and organised crime in Co Tipperary.

Sinn Féin Health & Children spokesperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has called for the Government to take action on suicide prevention.

Army bomb disposal experts have made safe an old shell that was found at a house in Dún Laoghaire in Dublin.

High daily doses of B vitamins could halve the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people with warning signs of Alzheimer's, a study suggests.

President McAleese has extended an official invitation to the President of Russia to visit Ireland.

The OECD has warned that the world economic recovery is slowing down more sharply than expected.

Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness has for the first time raised the possibility of IRA members giving an account of their activities if a truth inquiry into the Troubles were established.

Minister Batt O’Keeffe has said Ireland's corporation tax rate of 12.5% will not be changed.