For the fourth successive year, Toyota was Ireland’s best-selling car brand in 2024, selling 17,521 passenger cars, which was 4,001 more than the next best-seller, Volkswagen, with Skoda, Hyundai and Kia making up the top five.

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1 day ago · By Jonathan McCambridge, PA. Around 156,500 properties across the island of Ireland remain without power following Storm Éowyn. Efforts to repair the damaged network continue into a sixth day, with 133,000 premises in the Republic and 23,500 in Northern Ireland still waiting for their electricity supply to be restored.

1 day ago · Eva Osborne. On Tuesday, Tánaiste Simon Harris said he does not expect there will be a referendum on Irish unity within this decade, while he has previously stated that it is entirely possible that there could be a united Ireland in his lifetime.

1 day ago · Thursday's front pages focus on a range of stories from a row brewing over gender balance in the newly announced Cabinet to climate change posing a threat to Irish society. Thursday's front pages focus on a range of stories from a row brewing over gender balance in the newly announced Cabinet to ...

1 day ago · "And what is coming through now from the phone calls that we are getting is that we have patients who are beginning to deteriorate. And I have been in contact with nursing homes this morning where patients’ families are trying to get them in so that they can help so that their elderly parents can be warm and fed because they can't do it.

PROPERTY: Idyllic Mayo town home hits the market for €270,000. Tue, 28 Jan, 2025

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The Director of Services for the Ballina Municipal District (MD) has said she will support renewed efforts to have the Céide Fields designated as a Unesco Heritage Site but warned that it is "not just a badge you put on".

Nov 21, 2023 · Travelling 16 kilometres south of Westport into the hill country of Drummin recently, Mark Godfrey eventually came to a road lined with meadowsweet, heather and vetch, and arrived at the home of James Hopkins, a sheep farmer and fastest man with a hand shears at the world shearing finals last year.