Redesigning the core executive of a government will always be controversial among democratic politicians and it is internationally rare to invite unelected samples of the public to consider complex ...

But the surge in planning challenges since 2017 was driven by housing developments and access-to-justice rules derived from ...

Dublin City Council has won an appeal over the quashing of the Sandymount cycleway project, which was first proposed in August 2020. The installation of a cycle path on Strand Road in the south Dublin ...

A man who was in a 14-year relationship with an international showjumper denies he lacked authority to take six horses from an equestrian centre in Co Wexford owned by her, the High Court was told. On ...

Sarah Lavin has been run out of a place in another final of the 60 metres hurdles, finishing seventh in her semi-final in the closing session the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, clocking ...

The search for a young boy reported missing in the vicinity of the Cliffs of Moher in Co Clare on Tuesday continued on Thursday in what the Irish Coast Guard has now described as a “recovery operation ...

Tánaiste Simon Harris has described as “legal and ethical” the €800,000 in expenses claimed by Fine Gael’s Mairead McGuinness for a space she owns, adjacent to her home near Navan, Co Meath, which ...

A new external review of the fisheries agency Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), which is currently under close scrutiny by the Dáil Public Accounts Committee, is to be carried out. Minister for the ...

We are minded to go easy on the latest film from the always- interesting Catherine Hardwicke. Miss You Already brings together two much-derided genres – the aspirational big-city romance and the ...

Just off the Kurfürstendamm boulevard in west Berlin you will find the Chelsea Farmers Club. More than 1,000km from Chelsea and with no farmers in sight, this shop-cum-club sells tweed jackets and ...

Teenage West Ham defender Declan Rice says the last few days have been like a "dream come true" with his senior club debut at the weekend followed within a day or so by the news that he was to join up ...

A bareback horse race run twice every summer along the ancient streets of Siena and dating back to the 17th century will be targeted by animal rights activists this weekend, after Italian authorities ...