One of Ireland's oldest resident is urging the country to get out and vote and do its duty to solve the homeless crisis.

Legendary publican Brian O’Donnell of the Hi-B bar was yesterday given a fitting send-off by his family and a large gathering of friends who came together on a cold and cloudless day to remember a man as warm and as wildly eccentric as the city itself.

Brian O’Donnell, a publican, proprietor, and raconteur who died early yesterday after a long life and a short illness.

Why are Irish wakes and funerals so iconic?

Born on October 16, 1913, Nancy Stewart (nee Bird) from Clonard is older than the State and still lives mostly independently in her own home with the help of family who stay with her.

"Call me Leo," the Taoiseach said as he welcomed American vice president Mike Pence to Farmleigh House.

Kerry star Jessie Buckley has been named one of Variety magazine’s ‘10 actors to Watch’ for 2019.

The family of a Limerick man whose partial skeletal remains were discovered in 2001 have issued a fresh appeal for information about his death.

A highly-respected photographer who chronicled life and times in the towns, villages, and islands of West Cork over a number of decades has died.

Kurt Cobain’s progressive politics were striking for the time but have been eclipsed by the tragedy of his suicide, writes Ed Power

Despite Donald Trump’s by now familiar bluster in the face of opposition to his plans, House speaker Nancy Pelosi stood firm — and won, writes Elizabeth Drew

For the past 18 years Aengus ‘Gussie’ Shanahan remained a ghostly image on a missing persons poster.

They’ve called time on 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy, but while Baz Ashmawy has other TV projects in the pipeline, he’s determined to work with his mother Nancy again – it’s just not the same without her, he tells Esther McCarthy

Mrs Browns Boys, Bridget & Eamon, and Baz and Nancy going to see the Pope are some of the highlights on RTÉ for the Christmas period.

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As the excitement mounts for the new series of Netflix’s sci-fi hit, Natalia Dyer tells Lucy Mapstone how she’s looking forward to turning her world upside down again

The shocking true story of an Irishwoman at the centre of a brutal double murder is tipped to be the next worldwide TV smash hit.

MISS Hannigan may be a raging alcoholic who’s criminally cruel to the children in her care but for actor Hilda Fay it’s a role she’s wanted for more than 20 years.

Anne Rynne knew she’d be referred to as the sister of Barry and Christy Moore, but that didn’t stop her recording her first album at the age of 68, writes Trish Flanagan.

Nephew chokes back tears as man convicted of strangling elderly woman and setting house on fire

A 'cold case' investigation has solved a 30-year-old murder after a jury returned a guilty verdict against a man for strangling an elderly woman to death before setting her house on fire.

The former sister-in-law of a man charged with murdering a woman 30 years ago has told his trial that the accused confessed the killing to her.

53-year-old John Joseph Malone of Newpark in Kilkenny City denies strangling Anne ‘Nancy’ Smyth before setting her home on fire.

A former wartime wireless operator has become Ireland’s top silver surfer.

Cold-case murder trial hears man cursed at woman hours before strangled body found in burning home

Not a bother on her.

Dominic Moore is an actor and puppeteer from Cork. His one-man show Mr Punch is playing the White Horse in Ballincollig, Co Cork, tonight, and he also has a role in Jack, a new play by Declan Hasset about Jack Lynch, which plays at Ballymaloe Grainstore and the Everyman in March.

Jackie 4/5

Jim Sullivan never fails to remind me of our exchange on the way into the press night the year of the second four in a row.

US presidents vary between authoritarian figures and nappy changers, writes Olivia Kelleher

Pete’s Dragon 4/5

Matt Damon tells Kate Whiting how constant requests from the public helped convince him to go back to being the amnesiac assassin

Whether it’s raising funds for a nearby hospital or contributing to the education of six to eight-year-olds in the local school, Ballyphehane ICA Guild is all about giving back to the community.

David Cameron signed off as British prime minister with advice for successor Theresa May to keep the UK “as close to the European Union as possible”.

Tongue trading may not serve any evolutionary purpose, but the perfect kiss with the right partner remains at the heart of every romance, says Andrea Mara

Baz Ashmawy’s Emmy-award winning show, 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy, had to be renamed for the American series of the hit programme.

Now in its tenth iteration, Apple's Craig Federighi opened his iOS demo by saying that this was the biggest release of iPhone software in its history. Here's what's new to Apple's operating system in this release.

The bond between Nancy Shanahan and her youngest child, who went missing 16 years ago on a night-out in Limerick, was recalled yesterday at Nancy’s funeral.

The heartbroken mother of a man missing for 16 years has tragically passed away not knowing what happened to him.

Recorded in a copybook is a telling account of the Rising and the rebels’ principles, writes Jane Maxwell

The former US first lady Nancy Reagan died in California yesterday at the age of 94.