Sheep is the only sector with an improved outlook for 2026, with all others facing mixed prospects, according to Teagasc.

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Greg O’Shea is a TV personality and former Irish rugby union player. He won the fifth season of Love Island. He lives in Dublin with his wife Jeanni.

When Grainne Hourican comes home from work today, she’ll find her house transformed for Christmas. A tall, fully decorated Christmas tree in the hallway, the stairs dressed, her mantelpiece styled ...

John Hodnett cannot escape Munster history now but there was a time when it seemed as distant as the lands that lay beyond the Atlantic shore of his childhood.

Tiger Woods has no date set for his playing return after back surgery, but it was still a surprise to hear him admit that he has not been asked about being the US Ryder Cup captain in Adare in 2027.

Volodymyr Zelensky address the Oireachtas ...

Rebellious and rewarding, the Dublin of Barbara Bergin’s salty, multi-generational family saga is ­teeming with anxious writers, self-­obsessed showmen and callous headbangers.

There were some raised eyebrows in the small village of Mayobridge in County Down when local boy Charlie Smyth embarked on his American dream, but with one monstrous swing of his right boot on his NFL ...

Skerries native Jack Hanratty has been appointed head coach of the USA Women’s Eagles. Hanratty led the Canadian Women’s Sevens team to a silver medal at the Paris Olympics in 2024, and he is now set ...

Martin O'Neill praised the Celtic players for their "terrific" response to his demands as he prepared for what would "definitely" be his final game in charge.

A man who absconded midway through his sexual assault trial in Wicklow Circuit Criminal Court has been sentenced to nine years in prison after a jury returned a majority guilty verdict in his absence.