My boyfriend and I are trying to buy a house. “Trying” is a relative term.

Three Irish brothers who died fighting for the Canadians in World War Two are to be commemorated in a special ceremony in Belgium today and plans are being drawn up to build a monument to them in their birthplace in Co Cork.

Munster’s South African influence looks like deepening still further with reports that World Cup winners — centre Damian de Allende and lock RG Snyman — are to join the province

Ireland’s shoot-out queens are Tokyo-bound as Ayeisha McFerran added another glorious entry into her own sporting folklore with three incredible shoot-out saves.

Rassie Erasmus isn't a man for one kind word when a few dozen can be spread lavishly, like honey on toast.

Conor O'Shea's side ran out easy winners against callow Canadian side.

A few hundred metres from Nick Nurse’s city centre apartment in downtown Toronto stands Fort York, one of Canada’s most significant historical landmarks, the symbol of the still nascent country’s war of 1812 with the US.

A ban on drilling for oil and gas in Irish waters would seriously hamper the chance to economically develop large parts of rural Ireland, an international business group has warned.

Three Cork brothers were killed during the Second World War fighting for the Royal Canadian Air Force, according to never-before-seen records unearthed by a noted author and historian.

Good historians and archaeologists don’t sit on their laurels.

Rob Gillies reports from Montreal on the reverberations Canada’s decision to legalise could have internationally.

Jim Power Last week’s inclement weather will have affected us all in different ways, but apart from kids, the experience was most probably not a pleasant one for the majority of people, writes Jim Power.

The tension was thick. The mood was glacial. And the siblings were sparring.

Joe Schmidt knows the risks he is taking by selecting such an inexperienced side to face Fiji this evening but if it means Ireland are better prepared at the 2019 World Cup then the end will have justified the means.

Mysterious incidents affecting the health of American diplomats in Cuba continued as recently as August, the US has said, despite its earlier assessments that the attacks had long stopped.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has pledged to double Ireland’s diplomatic and trade forces abroad by 2025, as Ireland tries to overcome challenges faced by Brexit.

An Irish driving licence exchange programme has been agreed with British Columbia in Canada.

Business tourism is a burgeoning industry, worth €11.5m to the Cork economy in 2016. Pádraig Hoare hears from the Cork Convention Bureau that it can be worth infinitely more in the future

US police have issued arrest warrants for a dozen Turkish security agents and two others accused of taking part in a violent altercation with protesters on May 16 as Turkey's president visited Washington.

The British Columbian wilderness is a paradise, writes Damien Enright.

Twenty years ago today, the argument over the world’s fastest person would be settled once and for all with the meeting of Olympic sprint champions Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at the hybrid distance of 150m. Robert O’Shea outlines what happened.

The ‘awesome’ word is unavoidable on Canada’s west coast. Almost every sight one sees is awe-inspiring, writes Damien Enright. 

Latest: The Queen of England has expressed her "deepest sympathy" to all those affected by the Manchester bomb attack, adding that "the whole nation has been shocked by the death and injury".

Glass City, Vancouver, where towers of glass rise 25 floors above the concrete avenues, might also be called Green City, writes Damien Enright. 

And all because a few good men and women wanted to do the impossible for a worthy cause, writes Fergus Finlay.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is holding a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal this evening.

Canadians are expected to be able to smoke cannabis legally by July 1, 2018.

Slattery’s is located at 62 Grand Canal Street Upper, Beggar's Bush.

US president Donald Trump and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau have launched a joint effort to advance women in the workplace during a meeting at the White House.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday.

The Canadian Prime Minister has attended the funeral of three of the six men killed in an attack at a Quebec City mosque.

Canada’s prime minister has said a shooting at a Quebec City mosque that killed five people was a terrorist act.

Ten people, including a Canadian woman, have been killed after gunmen ambushed police in a series of attacks in Jordan.

Canada ran in seven tries to put a much-changed Ireland team to the sword in this one-sided Women’s November Series clash at the UCD Bowl.

Six questions in, all of them a variation on the theme that was his absence from the Ireland squad for last weekend’s historic defeat of the All Blacks in Chicago, and Peter O’Mahony’s calm exterior cracks just a tad.

A Norwegian man freed by militants after a year of jungle captivity in the southern Philippines has described the ordeal as "devastating".

Masai Graham’s quip about heart donation has been named as the funniest joke of the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival.

The Anglican Church of Canada has voted against allowing same-sex marriages by the thinnest of margins after nearly a week of passionate debate about blessing the unions.

The Toronto news-media is enjoying itself; two capybaras, which escaped from the local zoo, have become celebrities.