Offaly’s Brian Carroll announces retirement
Brian Carroll, the former Offaly captain, has called time on his inter-county hurling career after 14 seasons of service. The...
View ArticlePeter Dooley ready to take his chance for Leinster
The Leinster academy has shown no sign of letting up, with Garry Ringrose and Josh van der Flier poised to...
View ArticleFamily charged over Limerick man’s death
The widow and the father-in-law of Jason Corbett, the Limerick man who was found dead at his home in the...
View ArticleCan provinces produce their best season yet?
Nobody could have foretold the highs and lows experienced by all four provinces, but as the season reaches the halfway...
View ArticleNurses vote to strike over safety fears
Industrial action is likely at hospital emergency departments this month after the main nursing union rejected settlement proposals to address...
View ArticleBuilding on success: the commercial property sector in 2015
The Irish economy came out of the doldrums in 2014. At the end of 2015, we have now seen two...
View ArticleDecember jobless figures stay at 8.8% low
The unemployment rate remained unchanged at a seven-year low of 8.8 per cent in December, the Central Statistics Office said...
View ArticleIain Henderson injury set to keep him out of Ireland summer tour
Iain Henderson is off the crutches sooner than expected but is unlikely to be off to South Africa at the...
View ArticleÉamonn Fitzmaurice facing testing campaign with injury-hit Kerry
Last September, Éamonn Fitzmaurice made a pledge. Having arrived back in Tralee following their All-Ireland final defeat to Dublin, he...
View ArticlePayback Time
Who’d be an Irish finance minister? Between 1993 and 2007 it was easily the most plum position in government. Finance...
View ArticleNama on course to deliver €2bn surplus
The National Asset Management Agency generated €9.1 billion in cash last year and has so far redeemed 73 per cent...
View ArticleMunster captain CJ Stander ready to make his mark for Ireland
On the week that CJ Stander finally got to gallop around the paddocks at Carton House for the first time...
View ArticleSlow and steady soothes the electorate
And so, the general election is almost upon us. The All-Ireland, World Cup and Olympics all rolled into one for...
View ArticleDublin actress takes New York gong
Saoirse Ronan has won best actress at the New York Film Critics Circle awards (Erin McCafferty writes). The 21-year-old Irish...
View ArticleMet Eireann: more flash floods on the way
Flash floods are predicted today with Met Eireann warning that up to 25mm of rain is likely in some regions....
View ArticleInventor gets to the bottom of saddle design
It’s an idea he has been sitting on for more than ten years, but an Irishman has finally completed an...
View ArticleTaoiseach to hold insurers’ feet ‘to the fire’
Enda Kenny is set to meet the insurance industry next Tuesday and “hold their feet to the fire” over policies...
View ArticleFlooding not fault of our laws, Europe insists
The European Commission has rejected claims that EU legislation is partly responsible for the recent flooding in Ireland. Officials yesterday...
View ArticleJobless figures falling as recovery continues
The government’s re-election prospects were given a significant boost by three separate announcements yesterday which indicate that the economic recovery...
View ArticleRise up and defeat litter, Dubliners urged
More than 10,000 volunteers are being sought by Dublin city council in a bid to overthrow the rule of litter...
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