Could we really be bothered with trousers that pool around our feet in luxurious folds? No, we couldn’t. Carolyn Moore on the trends that drove us crazy in 2017.

Ciara McDonnell rounds up the best New Year’s Eve destinations around the globe – so you can get planning for next year.    

This week I’m sharing my take on the good, the bad and the ugly of 2017.

Conor McGregor became a father, Niall Horan saw his solo career take off, and Saoirse Ronan was an award-winning Ladybird. Those were some of the positives celebwise in 2017, writes Kelly O’Brien.

They say a sequel never lives up to the original but this breaks the mould as Kevin the Carrot finds love in this year's Aldi Christmas advert.

Following a record-breaking season of ladies football championship action, the 45 nominees for the 2017 TG4 All-Star team have been revealed.

A breakfast time cocktail of Brexit, Borris, and Big Phil got the final day of the National Ploughing Championships off to a bright start at Screggan, yesterday.

Leo Varadkar took his first bold step onto the pristine furrow — time stopped, breaths were held, and ploughing matriarch Anna May McHugh put her hands to her face in shock.

A series of back injuries saw Donoghue forced into retirement at 28 before embarking on a career in management.

One cup of tea led to Eoin Murphy being involved in Sunday's All-Ireland final.

Over 60 new shows and series have been been packed into RTÉ’s new autumn schedule and all the favourites are there too.

The 2017 championship season is fast reaching a gripping climax but for many inter-county managers, they’re left twiddling their thumbs after bowing out of the hurling and football competitions earlier than they would have hoped.

There’s not much riding on Eden Park tomorrow only immortality for a group of lads from Britain and Ireland, writes Ronan O’Gara.

Lions wing Anthony Watson believes Sonny Bill Williams did not intentionally try to hurt him in the collision that led to the straight red card for the All Black centre last Saturday.

Strange sport, rugby. Purveyors of its best brand and keepers of its finest exponents for years, the All Blacks have been able to bestride the global game’s landscape like rugby gods, shrouded in mystique and an aura of invincibility.

All the best tens are blessed with great vision so Dan Carter knows a loaded question and its likely consequences when he sees one.

Robbie Henshaw was going up against childhood hero Sonny Bill Williams when he made his British and Irish Lions debut against the Blues at Eden Park this morning and he was expecting a surreal experience.

It was short and sweet but a lot of hard work was needed for Robbie Henshaw to deliver those 70 words in Irish to the audience at New Zealand’s most important historic site last Sunday.

Warren Gatland’s British & Irish Lions could be about to surprise a few sceptics in New Zealand over the next six weeks.

Bloom medal winners yesterday basked in glory before the rain came down.

Weather and climate extremes have continued into 2017 after last year saw record breaking temperatures, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said.

The new year is all about ringing in changes.

From Northern Irish fashion designer J.W. Anderson making serious waves with his gender-bending designs as creative director for the luxury Spanish fashion label Loewe to 22-year-old Carlow actress Saoirse Ronan making the coveted cover of Time magazine, there’s no denying that the year just gone was another incredibly triumphant one for Ireland’s next generation of game-changers.

Dublin Chamber of Commerce says the biggest concern for businesses in 2017 is Brexit.

Oh 2017 thank God you’re here, says Suzanne Harrington. 

From the wholly unlikely, like Tiger Woods winning another Major or the Lions whitewashing the All Blacks, to the eminently probable, like Usain Bolt and Leo Messi reemphasising their credentials as wonders of the sporting world, we examine who might be rewriting the record books, month by month, in 2017.

Our hopes for the 2017 GAA season? They read as follows...

With 2016 having one extra second on the clock there are dozens of ways to ring in the New Year around the country.

As the events of 2016 have already shown, 2017 seems already spoken for.

Titles aren’t won during the congested holiday programme but the period sets the tone for the second half of the season while the arrival of the January transfer window can prove a tipping point in determining the futures of individual managers and players. Here are five questions that could be answered during the next few days.