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Day two of the Aviva Leinster Schools Track and Field Championships saw many potential stars competing, but none shone brighter than the lightning-fast Marcus Lawler of CBS Carlow who set new record marks in the Senior Boys 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.

Small communities can be amazing places in which to live. But they can also be the source of stultifying existences in which every move is documented, reputations assigned rather than earned and a place from which many desperately long to escape.

Co Mayo has the fewest drivers with penalty points, while Co Kildare has the highest, according to a new report looking at life in Ireland today.

On the TV, Queen Elizabeth II was standing in the Irish National War Memorial Garden, 9 miles away at Islandbridge, paying tribute to the Irishmen who died in British uniforms in two world wars.

Google had denied accusations from MPs that it minimises the amount of tax paid in Britain .

Cork, Ireland, already has the butter museum. But Albany, Ga., might soon have the next-best thing: The Paula Deen Museum.

A BRAZILIAN man accused of murdering a fellow countryman in a remote bog has claimed he is the victim of a conspiracy, a court has heard.

Diarmuid Vaughan, St. Mary's Choral Society chairperson George Barry and Ruth Butler following the announcements of this year's AIMS Awards.

A 61-year-old Irishman was charged in Britain Wednesday with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen's ceremonial cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982, a strike at a top London tourist attraction that killed four soldiers and seven horses.

They record and drink with Shane MacGowan from The Pogues, count Niall Horan from One Direction and Bressie as celebrity fans and friends, have recorded with film star, Patrick Bergin, performed at the recent Cycle Against Suicide and guested with Joe Rooney on Celebrity Come Dine with Me Ireland, playing for Rosanna Davison.

TWO Chinese cannabis cultivators are set to spend six years in jail after they were found growing 1.2 million of cannabis plants in a Swinford warehouse.

Apple's CEO is disputing assertions by a Senate panel that the company avoids billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by shifting profits to foreign affiliates.

Tipperary Fine Gael TD Noel Coonan has welcomed the Higgins' Report on the Establishment of Hospital Groups and the Small Hospital Framework which was approved by Cabinet last week.

Branson High senior, Brian Perry-Carrera at his home studio on Monday, April 29, 2013, in San Rafael, Calif.

Guinness, fiddles, and all-around Celtic madness: you've waited your whole life to pub hop in Ireland.

Kildare's first wind farm may be in the pipeline, as Bord na Mona's plans for controversial turbines move a step closer.

Below, find a roundup of the latest honors, degrees, and extracurricular accomplishments from Laurel-area college students.

It will tell the story of the man who became Dracula, the vampire character created by author Bram Stoker, who came from Clontarf in Dublin.

Got this jaunty tune from Gerry Harrington; he recorded it on The Merry Love to Play.

Mallinckrodt laid off nearly 100 employees last week as it prepares to spin off from Dublin, Ireland-based parent company Covidien by June 28.