A YOUNG man has died following an incident at a pub in Co. Cork. Gardaí and emergency services responded to the incident in Riverstick shortly after 9pm on Saturday. “An adult male, aged in his 20s, ...

THE SISTER of journalist Lyra McKee has criticised the ‘culture of silence’ in Northern Ireland after three men were acquitted of the journalist’s murder. Despite Friday’s verdicts, Nichola Corner ...

When Shivaun O’Casey first met Irish-born Nobel Literature Prize winner Samuel Beckett, she was a shy young girl of 16 studying acting in London. In the 32 years that have followed that meeting, she ...

Cohan’s father, Jerry Cohan, was widely known as one of the best traditional Irish dancers in all of New England. According to the Cohan biographer, John McCabe, Jerry Cohan’s specialty was working ...

GARDAí have recovered more than €700,000 in cash as part of ongoing investigations targeting organised prostitution and related criminal activity. The money was seized during a search of a residential ...

A FIRE which ripped through the site of a former convent in Co. Down is believed to have been started deliberately. The former Convent of Mercy building in Downpatrick went up in flames on the evening ...

PARENTS in Ireland are being urged to swap their disposable nappies for reusable cloth ones. An initiative launched at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin is seeing new parents being given vouchers to ...

TROUBLES survivors gathered in London for an event marking the anniversary of an organisation launched to support peace, reconciliation and healing. Troubles, Tragedy and Trauma Northern Ireland UK ...

DUBLIN: Now comes Sean Doherty, former Minister for Justice in the Irish government, the point man in a major scandal in the early 1980s involving the illegal tapping of phones of leading journalists.

There is a lovely story told about a day in the hospitable south of Ireland when a couple of American tourists rolled into the car-park of Lahinch golf club in a gleaming, rented limo. When they asked ...

Remember that last scene in Yankee Doodle Dandy? An elderly George M. Cohan, played by an artificially aged Jimmy Cagney comes from an audience with Franklin Roosevelt. The U.S. has just entered World ...

POLICE have appealed for information after a man sustained head injuries following a serious assault in Co. down. It was reported that a man had been attacked by several males in the James Street area ...