President Michael D Higgins is welcomed to the Young Social Innovators 2012 Awards by students and awards founder  Sr Stanislaus Kennedy. Photograph: Alan Betson

took top honours at the Young Social Innovators of the Year awards announced in Dublin yesterday. Students from Eureka secondary school,(...)

RONAN McGREEVY After a year's hiatus from the airwaves, impressionist Oliver Callan brings his new show to RTÉ Radio One tomorrow eveni(...)

Malachy O’Rourke has helped Monaghan to the best defensive record in the top three divisions. Photograph: Russell Pritchard/Inpho/Presseye

When Malachy O’Rourke came upon the Monaghan football team last winter, there was a hint of the hobbled dog about them. In jus(...)

Charlene’s way

Charlene McKenna can talk. Nobody is likely to confuse the Monaghan-born actor with one of those Californian hipsters who regard any conversati(...)

Rent supplement will be replaced by a new “housing assistance payment”, which will allow those who take up full-time work to continue to receive a proportion of the payment. The size of the payment will depend on a person’s ability to pay.

Recipients of rent supplement who take up full-time employment will be able to retain the payment under reforms being planned (...)

The 122 staff at Silvercrest will be transferred as part of the deal

Áine McMahon The ABP Food Group has agreed a deal to sell the Silvercrest facility at Ballybay, Co Monaghan, as part of its plan to exit (...)

Aine McMahon The ABP Food Group has agreed a deal to sell the Silvercrest facility at Ballybay, Co Monaghan, as part of its plan to exit (...)

The sale involves the transfer of 122 staff currently employed at Silvercrest, ABP said in a statement. Photograph: Philip Fitzpatrick/PA Wire

Meat processor ABP Food Group, controlled by Larry Goodman, has sold its Silvercrest plant to Kepak Group, having decided to exit the froze(...)

Ben Bulben, one of the many attractions in Co Sligo, which has received the most entries in The Irish Times  Best Place to Holiday in Ireland competition.  Photograph: Chris Hill, Tourism Ireland

Just a few days remain for members of the public to nominate towns, villages, cities and regions for The Irish Times Best Place to Holiday in Irela(...)

The search for the body of IRA murder victim Columba McVeigh, one of the so-called Disappeared, has resumed in Bragan, County Monaghan.The 19-year-old, from Donaghmore, County Tyrone, was kidnapped in 1975. Photograph:  Philip Fitzpatrick

“I am confident that he is here. Are we in exactly the right place? That’s a different matter.” Jon Hill overlooks a bleak bog on a wind(...)

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