Will fireplaces and wood-burning stoves be relegated to the history books, asks Kya deLongchamps.

Sean O’Riordan Next year, for the first time, the Port of Cork will welcome cruise liners all year round, with a record 107 ships booked, some of which will dock at a new terminal which will be opened at Marino Point, near Cobh.

Kya deLongchamps is mesmerised by early French glass paperweights

This is a man’s world. The airside tarmac, as Air Force One touched down in Shannon, was dotted in men

An island community off the south-west coast has come up with a novel way of raising money, while also educating visitors about its past.

Ever wanted to know more about, say, Marxist ideas of alienation or the situationists, but couldn’t face reading actual Marxist or situationist theory? Well now you don’t have to, writes Suzanne Harrington.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has held talks with DUP Leader Arlene Foster at the Killarney Economic Conference.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said it is "only a matter of time" before same-sex marriage is introduced in Northern Ireland, as he attended a gay Pride event in Belfast.

Direct flights from Cork to Cornwall begin next month. Just an hour away, it has scenery, activities and luxury indulgences aplenty for a memorable short break, writes Joyce Fegan

The first cruise ship of the season will arrive in Cork tomorrow, with a further 64 ships, containing 160,000 passengers and crew, set to follow in her wake.

A European Arrest Warrant has been obtained for a suspect in the murder of prison officer David Black in the North, PSNI said.

Rose Martin takes a look at what’s happening in the world of design and interiors this week. 

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A man is in a serious condition in hospital after two jet skis collided on Loch Lomond.

And photographer Richard Creagh captured some pics of the orca with the stunning Irish coastline as a backdrop.

It’s been a bumper season for whale, dolphin and shark watching with the animals spotted up and down our coasts.

The only way to find out what’s happening in the world of interiors its to go to the shows, and Rose Martin visited London last week for the niche, Clerkenwell Design Week.

A fairly wet summer has been predicted for Ireland and the UK, with the heaviest falls expected in Northern Ireland, western Scotland and northwest England.

A new book on Spike Island reveals, in the Victorian era, it was the biggest prison in the whole of Ireland and the British Isles.

USA: To a girl aged two in South Carolina, struggling to get dressed is an emergency. The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office says the child called 911, asking for help getting dressed.

Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for years...

Changes in broadcasting technology will eventually lead to Celtic into a British league, the club’s majority shareholder, Irish financier Dermot Desmond, has declared.

Introducing Americans to Irish culture is established comedy gold, whether it’s

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Nearly 1,500 Australians and 400 New Zealanders will be VIPs tomorrow when they land in Ireland on part of a round-the-world cruise.

Since my schooldays, with a fist of Tayto in one hand and a faded photocopy from the OPW scrunched in the other I have been lumbered with a weird devotion to ruined buildings. 

For someone who has struggled with serious injury, seen his club relegated and his place in the Irish team occupied by Robbie Brady, you could understand if Stephen Ward was a less-than-happy camper on his return to the international squad. 

 

In the years that it took to develop the submarine as a weapon of war, many military strategists thought the idea fanciful.

It was wet and damp as crowds gathered at Pier 54 in the heart of New York City on May Day in 1915.

Kya deLongchamps nags us to take a closer look at the place of horses in art yesterday and today.

"Yes, he does" was Willie Mullins’ emphatic answer when asked if Don Poli looked like a future Cheltenham Gold Cup winner.

So, it turns out that people from "Southern Ireland" (facepalm...)have the most attractive accent in the "British Isles", according to a major survey of British people.

We'll forgive them for calling us ‘Southern Ireland’ this time, I suppose…

Six months after staggering through college, and confused as to my future prospects, I took a working post in southern Sweden. 

Meyer couldn’t help but laugh when asked if he is viewed as a risk-taker back home. His response was that the perception is actually very different.

Scots go to the polls today to make what is, perhaps, the most momentous decision of their lives: whether to stay within a 300 year union with England or go it alone.

British Labour leader Ed Miliband accused the pro-independence campaign of "ugly" tactics after campaigners hurled abuse at him in chaotic scenes during a visit to Edinburgh yesterday.

The Tibetan Plateau has an average elevation of 14,800 feet. Ben Nevis, the highest point in the British Isles, is 4,406 feet. Needless to say, most of us would struggle living in Tibet.

The great German composer’s Irish and Scottish ‘airs’ will be played at the Kilkenny Arts Festival.

Louis van Gaal will be officially unveiled as Manchester United manger at a press conference at Old Trafford on Thursday afternoon.

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal arrived at the club’s Carrington training ground yesterday to begin his new role.

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal arrived at the club’s Carrington training ground on Wednesday to begin his new role.

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