The results are out and they are as we expected. Jack and Emily have topped the list as the most popular names in Ireland last year, as they have for the last decade.

Yes you could listen to a match while driving somewhere but there are distractions such as other vehicles coming towards you or a shitehawk with italic number plates ‘up your hole’ in the rearview mirror, writes Colm O’Regan.

James Ryan squirms at the idea that he might be recognised on civvy street these days.

Ireland’s Cricket World Cup qualifier against Afghanistan is playing away on the TV in the background as Rob Ryan sits in the Clanna Gael Fontenoy clubhouse in Dublin, gripping a hurley, and holding court on all things American football.

Business Reporter Pádraig Hoare talks to four people whose lives have been irreparably harmed by the mortgage scandal.

Denis & Mary Ryan Car Sales, Bishopstown, Co Cork has been awarded the Citroën & DS Automobiles Dealer of the Year Award 2017, from a network of 19 authorised sales dealerships nationwide. 

Have you ever found yourself wondering, how many cups of tea are consumed per episode? or how were the households found?

“This is Ireland.” These were the words a shocked Ann Davaris from New Jersey heard a stranger saying after she called her missing son Steve on his mobile number 11 years ago.

Mystery still surrounds the disappearance 11 years ago of a US backpacker who was only yesterday officially pronounced dead at an inquest in Ennis, Co Clare.

The Wild Atlantic Way is good for business along Ireland’s indented coastline, say the couple about to sell up a well-performing local shop and cafe/restaurant, which they’ve developed through the recession.

Ever since they first turned out for a rumble on the left bank of the Taff, Ireland have usually made a point of picking something up in Cardiff. 

You will not notice as you drive along Cork’s south ring road this New Year and pass beneath Frankfield Golf Club but up above, for members and owners alike, the emotions will be as raw as the morning chill.

Owners of Cork City’s Frankfield Golf Course have moved to end speculation that their entire amenity is set to close by declaring "we’re staying open for business".

KILKENNY SHC FINAL:

Ireland eventing coach Nick Turner is hopeful the good times will continue this weekend as he leads his charges in the Eventing Nations Cup final in Boekelo, the Netherlands.

Residential property sales totalling €2.73m in a ghost estate were snapped up in just 10 days.

A crowd led by a mother of 17 and two of her sons repelled two gardaí as they tried to seize a powerful car in which five balaclava-clad men were travelling, a court has heard.

Residents in the disadvantaged estate of St Mary’s Park, Limerick have begun a roadside protest to highlight their anger at the City Council’s handling of the estate’s regeneration.

MERCHANT’S QUAY in Limerick was bristling with armed gardaí, TV cameras, photographers, journalists, and curious onlookers.

Co Cork-based eventing couple Michael and Trish Ryan have high hopes for their latest purchase Tomgar Rembrandt, having paid the top price of €48,000 for the gelding at this week’s Goresbridge Go For Gold sale.

Many leaders of a prolific crime scene have been jailed, writes Jimmy Woulfe

The family of Alan Ryan, the Real IRA leader shot in Dublin this week, has accused the gardaí of “obvious disinterest” in his murder.

SPARE a thought for the Andrews clan, whose next family get-together is bound to be a frosty affair after one of its disgruntled scions was revealed as the poison pen behind an anonymous Twitter account.

An outstanding forward pack powered by one of the Ryan triplets in each of the three rows of the scrum was the decisive element in St Munchin’s impressive victory in yesterday’s Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup quarter-final at Dooradoyle.

AS Ireland’s eventing riders go through an intensive training period in a final push to secure a team place in the Olympics, rider Michael Ryan noted how the vagaries of the sport impacted on him and his wife four years ago.

THE family of a four-year-old boy who suffers from quadriplegic cerebral palsy, is profoundly deaf, unable to speak and was born with a hole in his heart is set to lose €9,152 a year because of hidden budget family income supplement (FIS) cuts.

IRISH Life and Permanent’s Trustee Savings Bank (PTSB) failed to act in good faith by concealing the existence of a taped telephone conversation with a customer, a High Court judge said yesterday.

IT’S almost unfortunate Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh isn’t commentating on Sunday’s Allianz HL Division 1 final. He would have been in his element reciting the native counties of the Dublin players’ parents.

CONTRASTING fortunes defined the opening day for Ireland’s World Cup challengers, with Billy Twomey finishing 16th in the first of three finals and Denis Lynch suffering elimination.

SUBLIMITY may run on Saturday at Fairyhouse, having been ruled out of Newcastle’s StanJames.com Fighting Fifth Hurdle by trainer Robbie Hennessy.

RTE have confirmed that Gerry Ryan’s funeral will be broadcast live on 2fm because of the enormous response from fans since his death.

The funeral of RTÉ broadcaster Gerry Ryan will take place on Thursday.

THE battle for promotion is the highlight of this weekend’s Munster junior rugby fixture list as Clanwilliam and Galbally bid to join Old Christians in the top flight next season. The battle for relegation is every bit as interesting, with three sides trying to avoid the drop.

THE Department of Finance was yesterday urged to waive a €60,000 VAT demand on a health machine purchased with voluntary funding.

Kenny, in effect, was trying to hurt Fianna Fáil by helping Mary Lou McDonald when he criticised Garret FitzGerald for suggesting Fine Gael should transfer votes to Eoin Ryan. At the same time he was trying to have us believe that he would not deal with Sinn Féin. He can’t have it both ways

AN application by two builders aimed at requiring Clare County Council to grant them default permission to develop two houses on a site in Lahinch has been rejected.

THE one remaining regular reader of this column will know of my love for Ballyhea, a love that has been sorely tested by a succession of personal rebuffs in recent years, the price regularly paid for being part of the large and passionate family that goes to make up any decent GAA parish.

TV3 APPRENTICE star Shane Davey faced a bigger challenge than a boardroom showdown with Bill Cullen when he appeared before Dún Laoghaire District Court yesterday on an assault charge.

THE alliance between the McCarthy and Dundon families goes back to the early 1970s, when one of the McCarthy family from Ballincurra Weston married Kenneth Dundon whose family came from Ballynanty, across the city.

THE board of Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) this week agreed to put a draft proposal of its strategic plan forward for public consultation.

A SPLIT has developed in one of Limerick’s feud gangs over moves to call a truce.

BY JULY of 2001, five-year--old Edel Ryan had made a few introductory visits to Ballagh National School in Tipperary, preparing herself for the big day in September when she would join the ranks of the junior infants.

DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea yesterday came riding to assistance of the Moyross light cavalry whose members have been shot at and kidnapped in the Limerick feud.