Body of the deceased removed from Coolcotts housing estate to University Hospital Waterford for a postmortem

Rosetta Cucchi, Wexford Festival Opera’s artistic director, on discovering Irish hospitality, revisiting past works for the event’s 75th anniversary and letting the public choose what to perform

Removing silt from riverbeds just sends floodwater downstream to somewhere else quicker

Dredge it

Luckily, the rest of the assembled company are well Chablied and not shy about singing

Locals have endured several floods from the river Slaney and are worried about the lack of defences as extreme weather becomes more common

Semir Saleh is one of 792,000 people with a library card – it has helped open up new possibilities for him

From tenements to wagon trains, a book comprised of letters sent from the US between 1818 and 1972 illuminates the history of Irish emigration in an intensely personal way

Eleven entries have made it to the final stage of deliberation in this year’s competition

Three vehicles collided on N30 between Enniscorthy and Clonroche

Detached three-bedroom home built with efficiency – and fun – in mind

The ‘Dare2Cure’ public symposium was held as part of a Dublin conference on bringing cancer research to patient treatment

Five men and one juvenile, believed to be Algerian, left Zeebrugge in Belgium at 11pm on Tuesday

Five adults and one juvenile were brought to Wexford General Hospital by ambulance

Saoirse Aylward was pregnant with Jax when a van crashed into another car and forced it into the path of the car she was travelling in

State’s first confirmed case of the disease led to China halting beef imports in January

Surgeries are closing doors to new patients, with concerns for rural practices if a doctor retires

Dublin also faces chance of thunderstorms, intense downpours and surface flooding

Reader left standing on a packed train reflects on shifting commuter etiquette

Ban will be lifted elsewhere from midnight on Wednesday following ‘improvement in water availability’