Gardai have formally upgraded their investigation into the deaths of a mother and daughter in Killorglin, Co. Kerry to murder.

A homeless addict has been sentenced to three years after he had sex with a school girl having met her for the first time that day while she was wearing her uniform.

A primary school in Co Kerry is trying to come to terms with the death of one of its students today.

The US first family had a grand day out in Dublin and Wicklow.

US first lady Michelle Obama and her daughters have enjoyed a private guided tour of the Wicklow Mountains National Park as their whistlestop tour of Ireland draws to a close.

Gardaí are carrying out house-to-house inquiries in Co Kerry following the discovery of the bodies of a young mother and daugher in a house in Killorglin on Sunday.

The bodies of a mother and daughter, who were believed suffered a violent death, were found in separate rooms of a house in Killorglin, gardaí revealed today.

A man has been killed after his car hit a ditch in Co Cork in the early hours of this morning.