The Taoiseach says he will not be calling for a full lock-down unless to told to do so by medical officers.

Italy is reporting 250 new deaths related to the Covid-19 coronavirus.

Rory McIlroy may have come out against the proposed Premier Golf League, but the world number one is not opposed to streamlining an “oversaturated” golf market.

Coronavirus is causing uncertainty to Gaelic football in South Korea, where the Government is sending emergency texts to people's phones alerting them to new areas infected with Covid-19.

Ireland and other EU countries have been told to be on alert for possible cases of the coronavirus.

The world consumption of oil is set for its first fall in a decade, as global investors continue to focus on the coronavirus outbreak and whether or not it will derail the world economy this year.

In the third week of a four-part series looking at the finalists for the Cork Company of the Year Awards, Munster Business Hub editor Alan Healy casts an eye over the contenders in the Large company category.

Rory McIlroy closed with an eagle to finish the second round of the WGC HSBC Champions one shot behind leader Matthew Fitzpatrick.

It is with a certain amused disdain that I daily digest the dispatches from colleagues out beyond in the Land Of The Rising Scrum, with all that mildly anguished stuff about finding themselves strangers in a strange land.

On a night players from both sides found it difficult to find their feet, Mick McCarthy didn’t slip up in keeping Ireland on the road to a third successive Euro finals.

Amid the febrile atmosphere that is enveloping all those associated with Brexit one question sticks in my mind.

Triathlete Carolyn Hayes is flat out. Since October 2018, she’s literally been racing around the world.

The FAI are looking to Germany again for a women’s international manager, with Maren Meinert emerging as a leading candidate for the job.

Chameleon was opened by Carol Walsh in the heart of Temple Bar 25 years ago in 1994 when the quarter had an exotic hipster feel and was still home to parts of the rag trade.

Samsung’s quarterly profit more than halved after a global industry downturn and trade tensions hammered demand for its chips and high-end smartphones.

Samsung Electronics has completed a two-month redesign of the Galaxy Fold to fix embarrassing screen failures that forced its delay, allowing the Korean giant to debut its marquee smartphone in time for the upcoming sales season.

Airbnb host income and guest spending were estimated to be worth over €700m to the Irish economy in 2018 and globally exceeded €86 bn across 30 countries, according to data released by the company today.

Is there anything more comforting than fried chicken?

Ciarán Gallagher, Bord Bia’s South East Asia director, talks to Áilin Quinlan.

While an Olympic play-off place was achieved, Ireland’s FIH Series finals campaign ended on a deflated note as Korea struck three times in the closing quarter to silence a soldout crowd at Banbridge.

Trump has exposed rifts within America’s alliances when it comes to the North Korean nuclear issue. By contrast, Kim Jong-un is building ties with China and Russia, writes Kent Harrington.

Her routine is simple, its execution less so: three to four hours a day on the water, another 90 minutes in the gym — 14 to 16 sessions each week, all adding up to one exhausted athlete by the time Jenny Egan crumples into bed on a Saturday night.

The Flat season is not long under way but already, Mark Gallagher is making a claim to providing one of the outstanding narratives of the campaign.

Researchers estimate that four million new cases of childhood asthma globally - 13% of those diagnosed - could be attributable to nitrogen dioxide pollution.

Shane Ryan will a team of 10 into the World Swimming Championships in Korea in July.

In a world of filters and blurring foundations, seeing anything akin to real skin is a rarity. I love my makeup as much as the next woman, but there is a very real

As a child growing up in Ireland, being Catholic was as much a part of my identity as being Irish was. I didn’t give either a great deal of thought, nor felt the need to interrogate my Irishness or my Catholicism. I accepted it as the cultural landscape in which I lived; the road signs marked as Gaelige, the grottos dotted throughout the countryside — both were given equal importance.

The Irish women’s team’s Olympic Games hopes received a huge boost as they were confirmed as one of the host nations for the next phase of qualifiers for Tokyo.

These are good days for Ireland’s manufacturers as a resurgent economy driven by home-grown and foreign investment provide the biggest turnaround since the financial collapse 10 years ago, writes John Whelan 

Italy’s Matteo Manassero is ready to face the consequences of a poor season as he tries to save his European Tour card in the Andalucia Valderrama Masters.

Relentless human population growth — most other species are in accelerating retreat — and ever-more-demanding material appetites are the primary drivers of climate change.

Unfortunately, I’m missing the Listowel meeting as I’m still a bit sore after the injury I picked up in Killarney and need a little more time. Of course, I’d love to be involved, particularly in today’s Kerry National which looks another very competitive renewal.

Ireland faded to tied 11th as the United States of America ended their 20-year wait for victory in the Women’s World Amateur Team Championships by hoisting the Espirito Santo Trophy aloft at Carton House.

Technology and tourism collided for me last weekend and — in the process — provided some insight to how one benefits the other.

The native of Glanmire, Co Cork, is, with his 1000 Beasts project, regarded as one of the brightest prospects in Irish pop.

One of the best short videos of a humpback whale leaping vertically, full body, out of the sea was taken just outside Courtmacsherry Bay by a visitor aboard Mark Gannon’s angling boat.

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Dustin Johnson got to world No 1 by combining scintillating wedge play with enormous power and precision iron play.

Google’s smart speakers are to be made available in more countries this year, but there’s still no sign of them going on sale in Ireland.

World leaders have urged US president Donald Trump not to take any rash action that would prevent them from working on the Iran nuclear deal after he announced the US is pulling out of the deal.

"The men's national team's greatest scorer of all time has not returned and will not play."

Diplomacy, the only alternative to war, is about meeting your enemy, and that is not a sign of weakness. Donald Trump is right to meet Kim Jong Un, says Peter Van Buren

It’s a shameless heart-string tugger at times. I don’t care. When the craggy loveable oldish guy started crying while saying goodbye to the five mentors in episode 1, I was snotting like a toddler, writes Colm O’Regan.