For Islamic extremists, African gold mines are a treasure trove both of explosives and funds to recruit new members and buy arms, writes David Lewis and Ryan McNeill

Over the next 20 years, 61,620 houses will be built in the county and 63,000 jobs created, says Tim Lucey

Courtmacsherry Harbour Lifeboat has paid tribute to its crew for their life-saving efforts in the Fastnet disaster 40 years ago.

Rugby players in an Irish Open Pro-Am are not an unusual sight. Along with GAA stars and jockeys, they are a staple of the pre-tournament entertainment at this annual stop on the European Tour.

Oliver and John Reel lost over €200k on a development in the Costa Del Sol. It’s been a long journey but they’re helping others recoup their losses, writes Dan Buckley.

Ryanair needs a leader who can communicate to people what the airline can do for them, not just what it can’t, writes Victoria White

Umbrellas will not be allowed inside the venue and as this is an outdoor event please keep watch on the weather forecast and dress accordingly.

The flights from Cork to the Portuguese capital will begin in October 2018.

Anyone who falls foul of their respective culture’s values can expect the full weight of its condemnation, as if there was no other possible perspective, writes Margaret Hickey

A former wartime wireless operator has become Ireland’s top silver surfer.

Leo Cullen has packed all his heavy artillery as Leinster fly to the south of France for their toughest game of the season.

Peter Dowdall is dreaming of holidays on far-off shores where glorious plants perfume the warm evening air.

Trevor Brennan’s place has been the first port of call for thousands of Irish people visiting Toulouse for well over a decade now so there was nothing unusual in Paula Fitzpatrick and Heather O’Brien seeking him out on arrival last September.

After a thrilling weekend of World Cup quarter-finals in England, we are finally down to the business end of the tournament but, of course, Ireland will not be there.

Coverage of the Premier League begins this week across a number of channels, with live games on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Friday.

SPRING is galloping on. It’s now the second week of May, the week in the year when gardeners in the cold Midlands, where I live, wonder whether the danger of night frosts has passed or if one morning they’ll find the potato shoots have blackened and that they planted out the French bean seedlings a few days too early. 

 

Temperatures are expected to drop to as low as minus 5 degrees celcius overnight in the South of the country and Midlands.

THE National Broadband Plan, which was launched last month, included a map that showed the locations across Ireland that will have access to commercially-provided high-speed, high-quality broadband by the end of 2016. However, no matter where you are, satellite services are available; although these can be expensive, with low monthly download limits.

The chaos that hit UK airports was clearing last night - but 38 flights have been cancelled at Heathrow this morning.

AS someone obsessed by the idea of catching impossibly large and beautiful salmon in impossibly large and beautiful rivers I have had to come to understand that the hoping and wishing may almost be as exciting as the arriving and doing. 

Bantry House has been owned by the same family since the mid-1700s but it has been a cherished part of this country’s heritage for many, many decades.

HEINEKEN CUP SEMI-FINAL:

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are planning to get married in a registry office.

Hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across the UK as more showers are likely to delay further the clean-up operation at flood-hit homes this weekend.

PAMELA Lyndon Travers, author of Mary Poppins, would not, I think, have been best pleased with Emma Thompson’s reincarnation of her in Saving Mr Banks.

Woody Allen's next movie will be called 'Magic in the Moonlight'.

A tasty makeover has been applied to the interiors of Hemel, an upgraded country cottage a quarter of an hour’s drive from Cork City at Kilbonane, near Aherla.

Rural pubs are so decimated that, within 20 years, the Government will have to provide grants for them to open in the summer to cater for tourists, says a Cork publican.

U2’s record company in Britain, Mercury Records, has put the Irish group on its schedule for a new album release in 2013.

This week’s return of the Irish Open to Royal Portrush could spark a rekindling of the tournament’s halcyon days of the 1970s and ’80s, says leading golf commentator Ewen Murray.

WORKERS at collection and recycling firm Mr Binman are “shocked and worried” to have learned the company has gone into examinership.

A SPECIAL fund has been established in honour of the late Examiner journalist Maureen Fox to help train a newborn guide dog.

Police flooded the Yemeni capital of Sanaa today in an attempt to end days of protests against the president of 32 years, a key Western ally in battling al Qaida.

The killers of a man kidnapped and murdered 30 years ago were “playing God” with other people’s lives, the head of the Catholic church in Ireland said today.

PLANNING permission for a Beacon private children’s hospital is to be welcomed.

CORK Opera House has played a pivotal role in the cultural life of the south of Ireland for over a century and a half and it is unfortunate that financial difficulties force its temporary closure.

CORK company Musgrave Wholesale Partners has confirmed it is to make 80 staff on both sides of the border redundant as part of a reshaping of its cash and carry business.

AN award-winning film by acclaimed Dublin playwright Conor McPherson will be among a raft of Irish productions showcased at the Cannes Film Festival this week.

Angelina Jolie is expected to return to the US for the first time since giving birth to twins next week, to attend the New York premiere of her latest film.

An Iraqi cameraman and three of his family were arrested by the US military during a raid on their Baghdad home, a television station said today.

CLUB Med has published a tempting offer for a seven day Hallowe’en special in Morocco.

A massive fire erupted at a petrol station in Tennessee, spreading to houses and killing several people, authorities said.

An accident in Dublin's docklands has caused major traffic disruption in the city this morning.

Halfway through a 15-year global development plan, the world is failing to sufficiently cut hunger, maternal mortality and infant death rates, the United Nations said today.

Pop princess Kylie Minogue is putting in an appearance in the south of France tonight to help raise money for Aids research.