Researchers from University College Cork have found plastic on the seafloor at depths of more than 2km where even light has never penetrated.

Oliver Gough is the last man to win senior All-Ireland hurling titles with two different counties.

Liam Griffin has led the tributes to Wexford hurling great Ned Wheeler after his passing yesterday at the age of 87.

Wheeler women from Ennistymon, Co Clare have been protesting visiting US Presidents here for nearly forty years.

Peter Jackson gets over the gain line, behind the headline.

The man who police say shot a Cleveland pensioner and posted video of the killing on Facebook pulled up to the drive-thru window of a McDonald's restaurant.

A former BBC employee carried out a "persistent, repeated and unwanted sexual harassment" of a woman while he worked for the company more than 30 years ago, a British court has been told.

The US may be the lone bright spot in an otherwise sluggish global economy as American consumers continue to buy expensive new vehicles at record levels.

From teen idols to flops and back again, Ash have always been willing to adapt to the ever-changing music biz, writes Ed Power

Cork City 0 Liverpool XI 2: Toni Gomes and Yan Dhanda scored as a Liverpool XI beat Cork City in front of a 4,335 fans at Turner’s Cross on Saturday night.

A UCC-led team of scientists has discovered a previously unseen cold-water coral. The find may double the amount previously thought to exist in Irish waters.

Trish Dromey reports on a eight-bedroom modern mansion which is new to the market in Co Limerick.

Nigel Farage’s chief of staff has left his post as the Ukip leader faces rapidly rising pressure to hold on to his job.

Do you hang your toilet paper so the endflap is over the roll or under it? Would you fight to the death to defend your method?

Robert Hume is intrigued by the life and habits of William Thompson, the eccentric ’Red Republican’ from Carhoogarriff in West Cork

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Two thirds of teachers say their training is insufficient to enable them to resolve cyberbullying situations.

Long before Edward Snowden leaked documents showing that the government was collecting every American’s phone records, Marcy Wheeler knew something fishy was going on.

Based on an outlandish true crime, comedy caper ‘Pain & Gain’ seems a snug fit for director Michael Bay.

Tim Wheeler doesn’t know what will happen next. “We’re working on a few songs, at the moment, but whether they’ll go on an album or not is too early to tell,” says Ash’s frontman. “We’re having fun. We haven’t played together for a while.

Chatting with Australia’s leading greyhound breeder/owner, Paul Wheeler, a little earlier in the week was a real eye-opener.

Irish research has led to the discovery of a volcanic landscape along the Mid- Atlantic Ridge, a vast underwater mountain range that extends almost the entire length of the ocean.

Saturday night’s second-round action in the Connolly’s Red Mills Irish Laurels saw racing at Curraheen Park brought to a whole new level when Liam Dowling’s Ballymac Vic became the first greyhound to break the 28-second barrier in competitive action at the venue.

A new exhibition by the Irish Agricultural Museum based at Johnstown Castle, Co Wexford — in partnership with the National Ploughing Association — celebrates the great heritage of the championships.

A woman arrested in Britain today on suspicion of paying public officials for information has been identified as the defence editor of The Sun newspaper.

THE Queen of England herself got a glimpse of it and seemed genuinely impressed.

THEY are creatures from the abyss described as the closest things to extra-terrestrial life which can be found on this planet.

The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress

A garda sergeant has today said that a member of her unit accused of trespass and assault admitted lying about being in a Basin Street flat a week after the alleged incident.

A US man has tracked down his birth mother and discovered she is a bearded woman.

IS it sexist now to describe Ballintubber Lodge as ‘a Gentleman’s Residence?’ Let an enterprising woman come to the fore, then, and change the auctioneer’s historically redolent description of this country home, newly up for sale.

AN independent medical expert said a “red flag” should have been raised among medical staff at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin when a boy’s parents had expressed concern that his wrong kidney had been selected for removal.

LEICESTER insist they are simply upholding a “duty” to protect the integrity of the Heineken Cup by complaining so vociferously over the Ospreys’ 16th-man affair.

NORTHAMPTON SAINTS’ director of rugby Jim Mallinder says his side will take a lot of belief from their performance in Friday’s narrow defeat at Munster as they face up to another trip to Limerick for the Heineken Cup quarter-finals.

Leicester and the Ospreys were today both awaiting an official European Rugby Cup response over a 16th player blunder involving Wales and Lions full-back Lee Byrne.

The Ospreys look likely to be hit with a fine for briefly fielding 16 players in their Heineken Cup victory over Leicester.

Leicester tonight lodged an official protest with tournament chiefs after their Heineken Cup exit was overshadowed by a 16th player blunder at the Liberty Stadium.

Ash frontman Tim Wheeler has revealed the trio have been incredibly productive and hope to continue their prolific output before releasing their 'A to Z' singles collection.

Danny Donahue (Paul Rudd) and his best buddy Wheeler (Seann William Scott) work for an energy drink company, touting a noxious brew called Minotaur to school children.

If you don’t elevate your humour expectations too high – absolutely nowhere near the realms of sophistication – this comedy will delight you with its high-octane energy, crude fun and good-heartedness.

THE global economic downturn has inspired one British property boss to cite Bob Dylan to describe the market turmoil — and triggered a debate about other songs evoking the credit crunch crisis.

British eurosceptic millionaire Stuart Wheeler clearly failed to establish that the British government promised a referendum on the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, two senior High Court judges ruled today.

Eurosceptic millionaire Stuart Wheeler lost his High Court battle today over the British government’s refusal to hold a referendum on the EU’s Lisbon Treaty.

Britain’s final ratification of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty will not take place until after the British High Court rules on a legal bid to force a referendum, British prime minister Gordon Brown said today.

A millionaire businessman today won permission to launch a High Court challenge over the Government’s refusal to hold a referendum on the EU Reform Treaty (the Lisbon Treaty).

US physicist John Archibald Wheeler, who had a key role in the development of the atom bomb and later gave the space phenomenon black holes their name, has died at 96.