Andy Farrell looks set to keep faith with Sam Prendergast as his starting out-half at the outset of this Six Nations and the coach needs the Kildare man to take the next step in his career by ...

Convicted fraudster DJ Carey has been moved to a new prison landing where members of the Kinahan crime gang are jailed.

When my daughter was a baby, and as is the way of all first-time parents just trying to figure things out, I did the bedtime ritual that edged towards the excessive, and certainly bordered on the ...

The board of directors of the US-Ireland Alliance has agreed its George J Mitchell Scholarship programme should no longer bear the former senator’s name over his links with the late convicted child ...

Gardaí have seized €3.4m worth of benzodiazepine tablets, also known as benzos, following a raid on a number business premises in Dublin.

Billy Wilder’s 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard famously opens with a dead man floating face-down in a swimming pool.

Not since New Year’s Day, 1948 has the tournament now known as the Six Nations kicked off on a Thursday. If Andy Farrell is looking for positive omens, Ireland beat France 13-6 in Paris that day and ...

Air traffic control services in Ireland are now at breaking point. John Downing: How a photo of Bertie Ahern knee-deep in water changed the course of River Tolka’s history ...

Michael Flatley wants to set the ­record straight. “Do you know any poor ­people who moved to ­Monaco?” he asked me. “How many people do you know that have no money to live in ­Monaco?” ...

The deputy lord mayor of Dublin has called for a “crackdown” on youth crime and says the State urgently needs to increase garda resources.

The retired superintendent who was acquitted of attempting to pervert the court of justice suffered “horrendously” during a six-year investigation that ultimately led to nothing, his solicitor has ...

There is a pool party in the sweltering heat. The DJ pumps out loud club music. Everyone is dancing in chic swimwear and sunglasses.