The latest addition to our stellar team of rugby writers reflects on the ups and downs of a magnificent playing career — and reveals the reasons why he's chosen to move to Paris to kick-start his coaching career.

Today, inspirational teenager Dónal Walsh will be buried. This is an essay he wrote about how he dealt with his two crushing cancer diagnoses

A Fine Gael TD has revealed that pro-life activists have threatened to slit her throat and burn down her house.

It's a story familiar to GAA people all over the country. A stormy annual general meeting, members walking out, transfer applications handed in afterwards.

THERE are three reasons why a managed exit by Ireland from the eurozone is the most urgent economic priority. But first consider this reality.

More than 300,000 people have left Ireland in the past four years. Tempting as it is, Ruairí McKiernan is prepared to stay to help make the country a better place

DÓNAL Walsh will be buried today having fought two battles in his short life — one with cancer and one with our health service.

Paddy Power are today refunding all win and each way singles to customers who backed Ireland's Ryan Dolan for last night's Eurovision.

Leaflets criticising the TD who chairs the Dáil committee hearing opinion on legislating for the X case, and likening abortion to the Holocaust, are being sent to homes in Cork.

The latest addition to our stellar team of rugby writers reflects on the ups and downs of a magnificent playing career — and reveals the reasons why he's chosen to move to Paris to kick-start his coaching career.

A calculator developed by a 12-year-old girl and her Irish father has become the number one-rated app worldwide on Amazon's Android App Store.

Deposits in the Irish covered banks fell 0.8% in the month after the removal of the eligible liabilities guarantee scheme.

Ireland may benefit from the increase in wages in China as a growing number of companies look to bring manufacturing back to their core markets.

Permanent TSB has reported a huge increase in new account openings since it launched its no-fee current account.

The Department of Finance is spearheading efforts to make Dublin a financial services hub for non-bank lending across the eurozone.

Mortgage lending slumped to €331m for the first quarter of this year, well down on the €450m lent in the same period in 2012.

Billionaire John Malone is the largest private landowner in the US. Now, he's expanding his reach to the land of his forefathers.

US tech giant Yahoo has snapped up Tumblr in a major US deal that will reportedly net the blogging site's 26-year-old founder a $250m (€194m) fortune six years after he started it.

The value of Ryanair increased by more than €600m in one day's trading yesterday after the company reported stronger than expected results.

Ryanair has accused the EU of acting bizarrely and making decisions on a political and not a commercial basis.

Embattled Justice Minister Alan Shatter said the Garda commissioner gave him details about TD Mick Wallace escaping penalty points and that he publicly revealed it to defend the integrity of the force.

Rarely has a voice ever carried so much panic.

The search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb raked by a massive tornado was almost complete last night.

Antonio Banderas will star in a movie as one of the 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground for more than two months in 2010, and the charismatic survivor he's playing couldn't be happier.

Ireland is heading for a smooth exit from the bailout programme as GDP grows — delivering a huge political and reputational reward for the country, according to the latest Ernst & Young Economic Eye.

Siobhan Talbot is set to succeed John Moloney as group managing director of Glanbia, at the end of this year — becoming the first woman to head up a major Irish food company.

Armagh's Jamie Clarke has cleared Paul Grimley of all responsibility for Sunday's defeat by Cavan, but questioned referee Maurice Deegan's decision not to allow him advantage in scoring his second-half disallowed goal.

Brian O'Driscoll has ruled out extending his career beyond next June.

In the play An Enemy of the People, one man stands for right, says Pádraic Killeen.

The UN thinks it's a good idea, but what do the Irish think of eating creepy crawlies, wonders Jonathan deBurca Butler.