For top-class food and drink, and also for its otherworldly beauty, it’s well worth making the connection to La Palma in the Canaries, writes Sam Boland.

Chris Salewicz pulls out all the stops to emphasise this is no ordinary rock biog; this is a Jimmy Page biog, this is one louder, one bigger, one nastier, but the rock god title is for the reader to decide, says Sam Boland

Munster and Ireland legend Paul O’Connell is Danny Lynch’s favourite player, writes Sam Boland.

Hundreds of people have turned out to pay their respects to the family of Karen Buckley at her funeral this afternoon, Taxi driver Gail O’Rorke has been found not guilty of attempting to assist suicide and Man United are to face Barcelona in thier US tour. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this evening.

It was the ensuing witch hunt, and not the events at Slane, that deserves condemnation, writes Sam Boland

By Sam Boland

There is a huge support at home and abroad to designate Irish as an official language of the EU, writes Sam Boland