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Lady's Island Lake in Co Wexford is highly-polluted according to an EPA report

O'Gorman calls for Wexford 'goo lagoon' to be prevented

Green Party leader Roderic O'Gorman has said that urgent action is needed to prevent Ireland's largest saltwater lake from becoming a toxic "goo lagoon".

Leinster • 18 Jun

As it happened: New national rent controls debated

Follow live updates as a plan to prohibit large landlords from implementing no-fault evictions is brought to Cabinet.

Ireland • 11 Jun

Emergency services and gardaí attended the scene off Bray seafront (file photo)

Woman taken to hospital after swimming incident in Bray

A woman has been brought to hospital after she and another woman got into difficulty while swimming in Bray, Co Wicklow.

Leinster • 21 May

Dublin woman Eilis Courtney has encouraged Irish people living in the city to help with blood donations

Watch: Irish in Canada urged to give blood after attack

Irish people living in Vancouver, Canada have been urged to give blood after a car-ramming attack left 11 people dead at a Filipino street party.

World • 27 Apr

The Northern Lights on display in Co Kerry last night (Photo: Weather Alerts Ireland)

Irish skies lit up in stunning display of Northern Lights

The Northern Lights were visible across Ireland last night, with many people sharing photos of the atmospheric phenomenon on social media.

Ireland • 16 Apr

Nikita Clarke, pictured with her mother Angela Healy, said she has no option but to travel abroad to get treatment for suspected endometriosis

'No other option' but to travel abroad over endometriosis

An 18-year-old who wrote a letter about her daily struggle with suspected endometriosis to Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said she "hasn't been able to be a teenager".

Ireland • 14 Apr

Arnold Mahon took over PJ Duffy's of Mill Street in Tullow on 1 April 1968

'End of an era' - Carlow shop closes after a century

Cards and flowers sit on now empty shelves in a drapery shop in Co Carlow that has served its community for 100 years.

Ireland • 30 Mar

Leona Kelly, 31, was attending a match when she started to feel tremors

Watch: 'Chaos' after quake, says Irish woman in Bangkok

An Irish woman living in Bangkok has described "screams" and "chaos" after a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake shook Thailand's capital.

Asia • 28 Mar

People from Lil'wat Nation indigenous community hand drumming at a ceremony

Indigenous Canadian famine aid 'hidden in plain sight'

Donations to Irish people from indigenous communities in Canada during the Great Famine - valued at around €12,000 today - have been "hidden in plain sight", a professor has said.

Ireland • 17 Mar

The businessman said that nobody intervened during the 'attack' in the bar (stock pic)

Israeli man spat at while dining in 'shocking' incident

The Ireland-Israel Alliance has described as shocking an incident in which a businessman who was visiting Dublin from Tel Aviv said he was spat at while dining with a colleague and verbally abused by a group.

Ireland • 15 Mar