Nearly four in five drivers have admitted to distracted driving such as checking text messages, eating food and adjusting navigation apps in a new survey. A total of 78 per cent of respondents to the ...

Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National Party (SNP) has pleaded guilty to charges of embezzling more than £400,000 from the party after agreeing a deal with prosecutors.

Christopher Cross had been sailing into obscurity when, in 2005, a comedian on the internet came up with the concept of “yacht rock”. It was meant as a jokey, dismissive way of describing the ...

Byelection marked a tough day for the big parties, and particularly Fine Gael rugby fan Neale Richmond, with Leinster also trounced ...

Accounts for the University of Limerick (UL) for the past two years, filed recently, show that an €8.3 million impairment dragged it to a loss in 2023 but that it bounced back last year with a surplus ...

Clifford and Roarty will be itching to go at each other again. It got lost in all the talk around the melee and David Clifford on Caolan McGonagle and Conor O’Donnell on Dylan C ...

Temperatures are to reach as high as a record-breaking 29 degrees over the next two days, as Ireland continues to bask in sunshine amid the current warm spell. Sunday continued the weekend’s warm, ...

Irish consumers are continuing to spend despite global uncertainty and the enduring cost-of-living crisis, according to the latest spending report from Bank of Ireland. It suggests that debit and ...

Armagh will face Tyrone in a blockbuster preliminary round fixture in the 2026 Ulster senior football championship. There were audible gasps in the room when two of the game’s heavyweights were pitted ...

Prior to the enhancement of Leaving Cert grades which became embedded in the system from 2020 onwards the numbers of students securing 625 points were between 250-300. Post-Covid they have been about ...

Minister for Finance Simon Harris has a hefty in-tray on his new desk. From managing an open economy amid global uncertainty and deciding what to do with the nation’s tax take, to managing whatever ...

The chief executive of a Dublin medical facility, the Hermitage Clinic, whose investors include businessmen Larry Goodman and Sean Mulryan, claims he has been threatened with the sack in a row that ...