Leslie Williams looks at some tops wines made by women.

It sort of worked, and some of the good ones I found are recommended below.

One of France’s vaunted high-speed trains derailed on Thursday morning on a trip to Paris, injuring 21 people including the driver, officials said.

Bombardier, the embattled Canadian train and plane maker, is exploring a combination of its rail business with French rival Alstom, according to people familiar with the matter.

So I’ve booked my holidays. And before you ask, yes, I’m basing it around food and wine. I’ll report back in July, but I thought readers might be interested in my plan should you be thinking about a similar holiday.

Macron wants to lead the EU into the 21st century. But he will succeed only if he does not go too far.

Munster firms are being urged to look to France and elsewhere in the eurozone for new markets.

Heavy snow in southern France has brought down power lines and trees and left one person dead.

The man is in an archaeological museum in Saint Raphael.

The French government has said there is nothing to suggest the police employee who stabbed four colleagues to death at Paris police headquarters had been radicalised.

A couple of weeks back I reported that French wine sales had dropped further in the last year. They now rank behind Spain, Australia and Chile.

Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France’s role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, has died at the age of 86.

It was shortly after nine on Saturday morning when the hordes began to spill from the commuter trains, through Kaihimmakahuri station and across to the imposing Makahuri Messe convention centre which was playing host to the annual Tokyo Game Show.

September is Wine Sale month with the French wine sale at DunnesStores having begun on Tuesday last and SuperValu’s French sale on Thursday. Lidl’s French sale is wisely holding off until September 30 and Aldi and O’Briens have more general sales.

French President Emmanuel Macron has fired a warning shot at Boris Johnson ahead of their meeting in Paris.

Ronan O’Gara is still getting his bearings, and no surprise there.

There's nothing quite like a little bit of encouragement when participating in a race, be it the local athletic club's 10k run, a 48k adventure race or the big one, Tour de France.

The United States are through to the semi-finals of the Women's World Cup.

A diabetes sufferer from Waterford says he's "quietly confident" he can become the first person to successfully kitesurf between France and Ireland, in the process raising €50,000 for a charity dear to his heart.

A merger between Fiat and Renault must include guarantees on French jobs and factories and fit with an existing Franco-Japanese car partnership, according to France finance minister Bruno Le Maire.

The 41-year-old, who spent eight months in charge of Chelsea before embarking on a season-and-a-half spell with Spurs