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The cash boost will increase the overall allowance to €240 per eligible child as part of the €410m social welfare package announced in February

Lidl has launched new burgers made from 'textured soya flour and ground dried mealworm larva' as part of its My Street Food range.

Large crowds had gathered at Burrow Beach in Dublin for much of the day as Ireland basked in 25C heat. Uniform gardai and the Public Order Unit attended the scene.

The seamer took five wickets on his Test debut against Ireland and is set to feature in the Ashes

June bank holiday Monday falls on May 5 this year, meaning many shops will be operating with reduced hours. Here’s everything you need to know about when supermarkets across Ireland are open and closed.

Tasmania is only about the size of Ireland, but it packs in an awful lot of scenery, said James Stewart in The Daily Telegraph. The east coast is “scalloped by astonishing beaches and lapped by sea the colour of kingfishers”; the west is “like Scotland on steroids”; and the land…

Temperatures have been hitting 25C at times alongside wall-to-wall sunshine as a glorious high pressure system dominates Ireland's weather. However uncertainty looms in the upcoming forecast.

The research conducted by doctors at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland is set to be presented today at the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) conference in Manchester.

But as the Ireland Thinks/Sunday Independent poll has a 3% margin of error it may mean the Green party could end up with no TDs if an election was called now.

The back-to-back All-Ireland champions recorded just one win from seven league games this year and lost to Dublin in the Leinster final last weekend

Exclusive: Gardaí believe the teen accessed the parliament by jumping over a wall from the adjoining National Gallery of Ireland on Merrion Square