Driving a car can be as potentially lethal as firing a gun. 

IT may seem obvious to a child, but not to most adults: If the Big Bang was so violent why do scientists appear to spend time trying to see it rather than hear it?

THE process of achieving weight loss by reducing the size of the stomach with a gastric band or through removal of a portion of the stomach may seem almost barbaric but for some overweight individuals it is the only realistic option to give them the chance of a healthy future.

The European Commission is taking Ireland to the European Court of Justice for its failure to recover up to €13 billion of tax due from Apple.

Tourism is one of the industries that contribute significantly to our economy, so we should be aware of trends in the wider world of tourism, especially those that might represent a threat to the goose that lays the golden egg.

One of our great achievements is that third-level education is the norm rather than the exception.

One hundred years ago today, Dave Gallaher died at the Battle of Passchendaele. He was born in Donegal in 1873. 

How very sad it is that the first-sentence reaction to Sunday’s mass murder at a concert in Las Vegas — at least 58 people killed, more than 500 injured — must contain the word “relief” but it seems unavoidable.

The Road Safety Authority (RSA) marked the opening of Road Safety Week by pointing out that Ireland is falling behind Europe in setting 30km/h speed limits in cities and towns. 

It is expected that the Murray report into the bugging of journalists’ phones by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, which will be given to the Cabinet today, will advocate new limits on how gardaí and some other State agencies can snoop on private citizens’ electronic communications and use of websites.