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US software company, Salesforce, is to announce significant investment plans for Dublin this morning, which could result in the creation of up to 1,500 jobs.

The proportion of third-level fees being paid by students has risen steadily over the past three years, while the proportion coming from the State declines, figures from the Higher Education Authority show.

A man in his early 20s has died, and another seriously injured, after they were shot in the car park outside a gym in Swords in Dublin.

It is expected that US software company, Salesforce, will announce significant investment plans tomorrow that could lead to the creation of up to 1,500 new jobs in Dublin.

Ahead of their strike action planned from 30 January, nursing unions will tomorrow meet the body that oversees compliance with the current public service pay agreement.

The public are being urged to report sightings of rare loggerhead turtles off the Irish coast after one was found off the coast of Donegal.

A woman in her 60s has been killed in a road collision in Co Leitrim.

A car bomb has exploded at a police academy in Colombia's capital Bogota, killing at least eight people and wounding about 10.

There are currently many important unanswered questions about the claims made in the Dáil today in the case of a woman with a fatal foetal abnormality, writes Fergal Bowers.

The number of flu cases across the country is continuing to rise.

A Tullamore pub has been fined after a private investigator hired by Sky TV walked into the premises last Sunday and saw it was illegally screening an English Premier League match, a court has heard.

A 44-year-old man was sentenced to five years in prison for a one kick assault that left an acquaintance with "catastrophic" life-long injuries.

A garda report has found that 3,500 children got away with committing almost 8,000 crimes, including serious crimes, over a seven-year period because gardaí did not do their jobs properly.

There have been heated exchanges in the Dáil after it heard that a woman carrying a baby diagnosed with a fatal foetal abnormality was not granted a termination at the Coombe Hospital in Dublin.

Independent News and Media has confirmed that it is to axe approximately 30 jobs in its editorial, publishing and commercial operations.

The Ireland South MEP Brian Crowley has announced that he is to retire from politics.

The biography of Brian Crowley, Against the Odds, recalls the tight ship run by his mother, Sally, as she raised six children while running the local constituency operation for her husband, Flor.

Galway 2020 has secured new cultural leadership under UK-based creative company Artichoke after the position was vacant for a number of months.