Sarsfields joined the illustrious roll of honour for the AIB All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship by ending the history-making run of Slaughtneil in a battle at Croke Park.
Sun, 01 Mar, 2020
Journalist Diarmaid MacDermott covered the 1988 trial of Dessie O’Hare when he was jailed for 40years for the kidnap of dentist John O’Grady in 1987. Here he remembers the dramatic sentence hearing.
Thu, 11 Apr, 2019
Lee Mount spans 6,200 sq ft in two wings, linked by a grand entrance hall, with grander staircase, Tommy Barker reports.
Sat, 21 Oct, 2017
Sat, 06 May, 2017
THE setting is Victorian Dublin, as newly promoted detective inspector, Joe Swallow investigates an outbreak of sexual assaults on women.
Sat, 28 Jan, 2017
Tommy Barker visits a charming city home that has just come on to the market on elevated Lover’s Walk.
Mon, 21 Nov, 2016
We are the Boys in Green, the best you’ve ever seen
Sun, 05 Jun, 2016
Another glance at the activities 100 years ago this week of key figures in the upcoming Rising, as recorded by authorities at the time, or recalled later by the participants.
Mon, 07 Mar, 2016
Details of what was being done this week 100 years ago by those planning the Rising, and how it was observed by British authorities in Ireland.
Mon, 29 Feb, 2016
Mon, 15 Feb, 2016
San Francisco has surprisingly few must-see sights, but it is the filler that makes this city such a snug place to visit, writes Geoff Power.
Sat, 30 Jan, 2016
WOODHILL HOUSE, and its wooded grounds a couple of miles from Cork city at Tivoli, is steeped in Irish and local Munster mercantile, artistic and political history, over several centuries.
Sat, 23 May, 2015
Select new house developments are just underway in Cork city in locations like Church Road, Blackrock, and Feirm Bawn in Wilton, each for a handful of new homes - but there’s also sites for one-offs, if you know where to look.
Sat, 11 Apr, 2015
A new TV documentary on Brendan Behan attempts to separate the man from the myth, writes Richard Fitzpatrick
Thu, 27 Nov, 2014
AIB ULSTER CLUB SFC SEMI-FINAL:
Mon, 17 Nov, 2014
KNOCKAINEY WALK, CO. LIMERICK
Mon, 06 Oct, 2014
Broadcaster and sports pundit George Hook has said Ireland is a country that is unfair and impoverished ahead of his address at the annual Michael Collins commemoration this weekend.
Thu, 21 Aug, 2014
FROM a 15th century book of hours to photographs of the Co Clare RIC, the Fonsie Mealy rare book and collectors’ sale, in Dublin next Tuesday, goes on view today.
Sun, 29 Jun, 2014
Portraits of some of Ireland’s most revered historical figures are among tens of thousands of artefacts opened to the world in a newly expanded digital collection.
Fri, 25 Apr, 2014
Lady Gregory’s letter and various pictures and medals will be up for auction.
Sun, 13 Apr, 2014
The transport minister has told a men-only lunch at an Irish society event in the United States that courage is needed to make the future equal for all including gay and straight and male and female.
Tue, 18 Mar, 2014
DRAG artist Panti Bliss’s speech on homophobia, in the Abbey Theatre on February 2, is one of the greats of Irish politics, up there with Robert Emmet’s parting words. For anyone who has followed Bliss’s (real name Rory O’Neill) career, this is not surprising.
Thu, 13 Feb, 2014
Gregory McGonigle got his reign as Dublin ladies senior football team manager off to the perfect start with a comfortable victory over Kerry in Division 1 of the Tesco Homegrown Ladies National Football League today.
Sun, 09 Feb, 2014
STANDING up, as she’s about to leave, Louise Phillips, author of the just-named Irish Crime Novel of the Year The Doll’s House may have cried as she told me about the dark place where her novels originate.
Mon, 09 Dec, 2013
POLITICS is rock ’n’ roll for the ugly, and the shucksters, bounders and bumpkins who hang about in Leinster House are a motley crew.
Wed, 30 Oct, 2013
A brave buyer prepared for a challenge will love Carrig House, Tommy Barker reports
Sat, 09 Jun, 2012
A priceless stained-glass window commemorating teenage IRA volunteer Kevin Barry has been given a new home at his alma mater.
Fri, 03 Jun, 2011
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has ordered Irish diplomats across the globe to get the message out that Ireland has drawn a line under its banking crisis.
Wed, 01 Jun, 2011
ANTI-QUEEN protests planned by republican and anti-war groups will be allowed to go ahead, gardaí have confirmed.
Sat, 14 May, 2011
A “SUFFOCATING” security operation in Dublin city centre for the visit of the British monarch has disabled potential flashpoints with republicans.
Fri, 13 May, 2011
FOUR men protesting over the economic crisis took in the sites of Ireland’s patriot past yesterday as they ended a 160km march at the Dáil.
Fri, 28 Jan, 2011
Four men protesting over the economic crisis took in the sites of Ireland’s patriot past today as they ended a 160km march at the Dáil.
Thu, 27 Jan, 2011
A NEW access lane puts 1, Wood Hill Villas on a more manageable footing – and that’s to its benefit, because builders will surely need to get to it.
Sat, 04 Sep, 2010
Dublin traders unveiled a new map today pinpointing the best of the capital’s hidden gems and homegrown hotspots.
Thu, 27 May, 2010
THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has unanimously voted against the public service pay agreement and threatened potential strike action from September in response to the latest Cabinet cutbacks.
Wed, 07 Apr, 2010
THE rousing cover picture of Michael Collins, fists clenched and in full flight, sets the tone of Great Irish Heroes, a lively collection of stories of men and women whose names have reverberated through the pages of history.
Sat, 27 Mar, 2010
Two men who were found guilty by the Special Criminal Court today of having bomb-making equipment at a Dublin apartment last year were the last people to be convicted at the Green Street courthouse in Dublin.
Thu, 10 Dec, 2009
THE American Richard Rodgers — of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame — wrote over 900 songs for 40 Broadway musicals but he could never have imagined any of his compositions being chorused at a wintry GAA pitch in Carrick-in-Shannon.
Sat, 14 Feb, 2009
The 100th birthday of a Dublin school founded by Easter Rising rebel Padraic Pearse will be commemorated in two new stamps.
Fri, 11 Jul, 2008
AS the ‘No-No’ tribes disperse to their hugely diverse comfort zones after the nine-day booze-up to which they were electorally entitled, those of us who are committed to the literally essential strategy of Ireland in Europe must regroup.
Mon, 23 Jun, 2008
CORK’S city manager has been asked to intervene in a standoff which has forced the closure of a famous lane for more than a month.
Sun, 16 Mar, 2008
MOBILE phone mast protestors were criticised yesterday for targeting worshippers at a Church of Ireland Sunday service.
Mon, 16 Apr, 2007
WHEN Bertie Ahern wants to spur the masses, he turns to the Iron Lady rather than the Republican men of steel.
Thu, 29 Mar, 2007
A QUARTER of Dublin’s iconic St Stephen’s Green will close to the public in 2009 to allow construction work on a new metro system for Dublin.
Wed, 21 Mar, 2007
THEY haven’t got a pitch, they haven’t got a club house, dammit they haven’t even got a shed they can call their own, no meeting-place of any description.
Sat, 10 Mar, 2007
GERALD MORGAN is right to remind us that the “heroic fortitude of the common soldier in the service of his country” is worth commemorating. (Irish Examiner letters, March 13).
Wed, 15 Mar, 2006
MR JUSTICE Kevin O’Higgins concluded that Portmarnock golf club “is not a discriminating club under the terms of the Equal Status Act 2000, because it falls within an exception provided for in that act”.
Sat, 18 Jun, 2005
WHY, oh why, do journalists always focus on the negative, the bad, the tragic side of things? On St Patrick’s Day, when the whole world wants to be Irish, Colette Sheridan thinks St Patrick would be turning in his grave.
Tue, 22 Mar, 2005
Veteran republican Joe Cahill will rank alongside some of the greatest names in Irish nationalism, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness claimed today.
Sat, 24 Jul, 2004
I WAS amazed by two events connected with the Emmet anniversary commemorations. The most bizarre event took place as we as we stood outside St Catherine’s Church in Thomas Street in Dublin last Saturday at the same time that Robert Emmet was executed 200 years before.
Wed, 24 Sep, 2003
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