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THE Irish Government has purchased 100 acres of land next to the Glen of the Downs beauty spot in...

A MAN has been extradited from Northern Ireland to Lithuania over child human trafficking offence...

YOU can watch the winter solstice at one of Ireland’s ancient landmarks from the comfort of your ...

GARDAÍ have appealed for witnesses to come forward after a driver died in a collision in Cork cit...

THE Irish Government has increased surveillance at farms across the country after an outbreak of ...

TESCO Ireland has opened a new superstore in Dublin bringing 80 new jobs to the area. Located in ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to the architect and television presenter Hugh Wallace who has died at th...

AN ANNIVERSARY appeal has been issued today for information on the murder of Mayo woman Sandra Co...

BOOTS has doubled its footprint at one of its Dublin stores following an extensive expansion proj...




Jim O’Callaghan seems to have forgotten something. The Minister for Justice says Ireland will shadow the planned crackdown on immigration by...


So, I’ll tell you how I went to Bob Dylan and never got to see him. But also how the night restored my faith in the kindness and humanity of the...


Today, December 3, the world observes the International Day of Persons with Disabilities under the theme ‘Fostering Disability-Inclusive Societies...


Cash is King. This is what those in power are now telling us. Of course, most of us knew that all along and are pleased to see our elected...

“The journalist must never become the story” is perhaps the most overused, and most untrue, cliches about the industry. I learned at an alarmingly...


So here it is...well - nearly Merry Christmas, but Advent is here, the Church’s Liturgical New Year, and of course December is the beginning the...


THE row over flying a Palestinian flag at Belfast City Hall has become a row over the call-in procedure, the council equivalent of Stormont’s...





Christmas can be a challenging time for a lot of us. For some, the twinkly lights and tinsel only shine a brighter light on the painful stuff we...


World of Politics with Harry McGee The last meaningful trip Voldymry Zelenskyy took to Ireland was in 2017. Back then he was not a politician; he...

The Christmas market has arrived in Belfast, and lights celebrating the season are switching on across Northern Ireland. People are busy making...


A Different View with Dave O’Connell They used to call it multi-tasking, which was seen as a positive thing; now it’s known as continuous partial...

After the recent debate over the question of renaming Herzog Park, Brian Ó Raghallaigh takes us through the politics of naming and renaming in...


Inside Track with John McIntyre THIS will hurt the Maigh Cuilinn footballers for a long time. The Galway champions had enough chances, possession...


We’re asking readers to keep a diary to let us know how your finances are looking ahead of the festive season.


Christmas party season is here with a vengeance – but there is one shindig that ever greater numbers of music fans will be delighted to skip. That...

The cast of the pantomime at Stormont end their season next week, just as the normal pantomime season begins. But then the performance at Stormont...


I’m with the assessment that Stormont is a pantomime. Indeed, I might push it further than that and describe it as pure, unadulterated, unfunny,...

It is entirely appropriate for heartfelt expressions of sympathy and support to be sent from Ireland, north and south, to the beleaguered people of...

THE golden dazzle of the World Cup ended long ago for me, with the blatantly biased officiating which helped joint-hosts South Korea make it to the...

The 1997 satire Wag the Dog may be worth a repeat viewing. Starring Robert de Niro and Dustin Hoffman, it sees the president of the US caught in a...




Finian Murphy shares what he learned about how Europe is responding to big social issues from travelling by train.

On January 5th, 1976, members of an active service unit of the IRA stopped a minibus at Kingsmill, near Whitecross in South Armagh. They sorted out...


January’s challenges are often created in December, and it’s a truth that many SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) owners across Cork know all too...


It’s December, so it’s officially safe to talk about Christmas. I have already witnessed trolleys teetering with towers of toys departing Smyths....

The findings of the McCullough Review have cast a long shadow over public confidence in policing in Northern Ireland. Between 2011 and 2024,...

IT was a gift to caption writers. On his flight to Turkey, Pope Leo XIV was gifted a baseball bat once owned by Nellie Fox, a Chicago White Sox...

Elizabeth Taylor said in the 1980s: “It is bad enough that people are dying of Aids, but no-one should die of ignorance.” In Ireland, north and...
