The Port of Cork has signed a collaboration agreement with the Port of Amsterdam today, a deal which will see both ports look to strengthen each other.

From New York to Budapest, you can celebrate St Patrick’s Day almost anywhere in the world. Ciara McDonnell helps you get planning for next year

Irish construction company Ardmac has announced the creation of 70 new jobs as part of its expansion in Cork and Amsterdam this year.

Two Cork players were key to the historic breakthrough wins for Warsaw and Amsterdam at the Croke Park European Football Finals in Maastricht which took place at the weekend.

As thousands of experts and activists descend on Amsterdam this week to bolster the battle against Aids, it is sobering to reflect that efforts to eliminate the disease appear to have stymied.

The Tánaiste has called on the Russian Federation to cooperate fully with efforts to establish accountability for the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.

Thomson Reuters is set to move its FX Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) to Dublin from London following Britain's exit from the European Union next year.

Direct passenger rail journeys between London and Amsterdam have launched.

One hundred England fans were arrested in Amsterdam on Friday as the national team played Holland.

England manager Gareth Southgate was disappointed to hear about fan trouble after his players won with "pride and some style" in Holland.

Latest: Dutch prosecutors have rejected calls to open a criminal investigation into four major tobacco companies on charges including attempted murder or manslaughter.

Tickets for the new Eurostar service between London and Amsterdam go on sale on Tuesday.

A judge in Amsterdam has agreed to ask the European Court of Justice preliminary questions about the consequences of the UK's departure from the European Union on the citizenship rights of Britons living in Europe.

Latest: A powerful storm has hit Europe with high winds and snow, killing at least four people in three countries, grounding flights, halting trains, ripping roofs off buildings and flipping over trucks.

Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has suspended all flights and the Dutch national rail service halted all trains as a powerful storm lashes the Netherlands, toppling trees and causing traffic chaos.

Ciara McDonnell rounds up the best New Year’s Eve destinations around the globe – so you can get planning for next year.    

A man with a knife has been shot at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport

Amsterdam is seeking to lure companies and the European Medicines Agency as Brexit drives them away from London, even as a Dutch cap on bank bonuses keeps financial firms away.

Netflix has announced the creation of 400 jobs at its European customer service hub which opened this week in Amsterdam.

Dutch police are examining if CCTV cameras may have captured a botched murder attempt by a four-man British-Irish gang in one of Amsterdam’s most popular public squares.

Police in the Netherlands are continuing to question two Dublin men following an armed incident in Amsterdam.

Two Irishmen, including a senior member of the Kinahan cartel, are among four people being questioned after a suspected botched murder attempt at one of Amsterdam’s busiest squares.

Three guns were also discovered.

One of Europe’s most iconic cities, Amsterdam, invented the stock exchange but it faces obstacles if it is to be a banking hub after Britain leaves the European Union, writes Rob Cox   

Holland were beaten by a late Blaise Matuidi goal on an emotional night in Amsterdam.

A woman who won a €2.1m lottery prize during a divorce has no obligation to share it with her ex-husband, according to a Dutch court decision.

Imagine yourself a velvet-dressed gentleman, your boot tops frothy with lace, lounging around Amsterdam in 1602. 

Terror probe launched as France on red alert for further attacks.

France awards Legion d’honneur as father denies gunman is terrorist.

Three people have been injured, two of them critically, in a shooting on a high-speed French train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris.

Looks like fun to be a luggage bag!

Rotterdam is presently undergoing a renaissance of sorts, specifically in the areas of arts, culture, night life and fashion.

Transport in Amsterdam and surrounding Netherlands towns has been thrown into chaos by a major power cut.

The charity grants people's dying wishes.

AN ENDLESS male parade is passing by, all of them some woman’s boyfriend, husband, brother or father. Most of the men wear dark casual clothes and very few look shabby.