2+ hour, 44+ min ago  (761+ words) A KILDARE-based GP who treated a patient diagnosed with a long-standing overactive thyroid condition with medication for an underactive thyroid without checking with her former GP and consultants has been found guilty of poor professional performance. A fitness-to-practise committee of…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (148+ words) Part of the cocaine production laboratory A cocaine lab and "640, 000 of cannabis were uncovered in Kildare on Tuesday. As part of an intelligence-led joint operation involving the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau (GNDOCB) and Revenue Customs Service, 32kgs of…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (312+ words) A man who looted three shops during the Dublin riots was a "follower" who took items including Nike runners, the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard. Faraj Odukoya (20) of Brega, Hamlet Lane, Balbriggan, Co Dublin, pleaded guilty to two counts…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (340+ words) The Travellers come from the UK and Ireland and as far afield as France and Belgium. THE High Court has made orders that around 70 Travellers" caravans parked on lands in the Curragh, Co Kildare, should leave immediately. Some of the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (691+ words) The HSE outsourced radiological reporting at University Hospital Limerick, and a man's CT brain scan was read remotely in the early hours, but a brain bleed was missed, the High Court has heard. When the Tipperary farmer, PJ O'Connor's condition…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (288+ words) A MAN who tried attack raiding garda" with an iron bar before they discovered almost "5, 000 worth of amphetamines, was sentenced to nine months in prison recently (4 June). Naas District Court heard how Victors Ivanovs (48) " a separated father of two " with…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (316+ words) A woman in her 80s who was found dead at a house in Waterford has been named locally as Noreen Daly. Garda" were alerted to the discovery of the body of the widow at a property in Ardsallagh near Youghal Bridge…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (99+ words) A man has died after being struck by a Luas tram on Monday evening. Garda" are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which took place in Marlborough Street shortly after 7pm. The man, a pedestrian aged in his 70s, was pronounced dead…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (926+ words) A Kildare landscaper who defrauded an elderly woman out of over "50, 000 for poor quality work in her garden has been jailed for a year. Myles Connors (37) charged the woman "48, 000 for slabbing, weed removal and cementing part of her back garden....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (219+ words) The defence in Jeffrey Donaldson's trial over historical sex offences has closed its case. The former DUP leader's barrister told Newry Crown Court on Monday afternoon that no further evidence would be called. The 63-year-old has pleaded not guilty to…...