3,000 customers without power overnight

The remaining outages are largely due to individual faults in pockets stretching from Castlebar and Sligo across to Drogheda and Dundalk, including parts of Cavan and Longford. RTE.ie is the website of Raidio Teilifis Eireann, Ireland’s National Public Service Broadcaster.

Beautiful Ballilogue: Cottage chic in one of Ireland’s best-kept secrets

There’s a fresh log on the woodburner, a bottle of Villa Maria chilling in the fridge, and I’m wrapped in a soft cashmere throw enjoying a good natter with my friend. Safely tucked behind a balcony in the open-plan living room, our toddlers have played in the garden outside, built a train track around the coffee table, and are now curled up in a designer swivel chair watching Finding Dory on the DVD player.

The evidence informing the surgeon’s selection of intraocular lens…

Correspondence: X Li, Pharmaceutical & Molecular Biotechnology Research Centre, Department of Chemical & Life Sciences, Waterford Institute of Technology, Macular Pigment Research Group, Carriganore House, W.I.T. West Campus, Carriganore, Waterford, Ireland Tel: +353 51 30 6261; Fax: +353 51 83 4046. E-mail: xue215@gmail.com In recent years, manufacturers and distributors have promoted commercially available intraocular lenses with transmittance properties that filter visible short-wavelength light on the basis of a putative photoprotective effect.

Frontline Ventures wraps up second fund

Dublin and London-based Frontline Ventures , an early-stage venture firm, has closed its second fund at 60 million euros. The firm backs B2B software companies, making investments that are between 200,000 euros and 3 million euros.

Garda arrest 51 people in the Kilkenny area

Garda have arrested 51 people and have carried out 19 planned searches in the Kilkenny area over the past three days, as part of Operation Thor-Project Storm. Fifteeen of those arrested were detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984 at various Garda Stations in the Kilkenny/Carlow Division.

Kilcavan sign possible for 2017

There was no cash to pay for new village signs for Kilcavan last year but there is hope that money could be provided in the year ahead. He added that himself and fellow Laois County Councillor Cllr Seamus McDonald could share the costs from discretionary funding when awarded in 2017.