The rowing boom has seen an explosion of interest in next Saturday’s Irish Indoor Rowing Championships at UL, the largest indoor rowing event in Ireland.

Helen Mirren has always eased into typically male roles, and is still doing so at 70, she tells Helen Barlow

WHEN I picked up this book I thought it was a girly book about a nurse, but then I started reading it and was surprised that it was a factual account of a nurse training in London during world War II.

FORTY FIVE years later, Castleisland’s Christmas basketball blitz in Kerry is still going strong. But getting stronger?

Only Eamonn Egan gets to sample the quiet before the storm of the Castleisland Basketball blitz, which tips off its 44th year on Thursday.

Colin Firth is to appear in a 'King's Speech' sequel.

US presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s whining and flip-flopping is making him look like a wimp with something to prove, not a steady future leader of the Western world, writes Michael Tomasky

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WHY have a ‘winter break’ debate when you can have the real thing?

The Blitz: The British under attack

WORK is being carried out to preserve a rare German wartime bomber which was discovered on a sandbank 70 years after it was shot down during the Battle of Britain.

Sarah Blake

US President Barack Obama today praised the British Blitz spirit as thousands of veterans, servicemen and their families gathered in Normandy to mark the 65th anniversary of D-Day.

IRISH workers played a key role in rebuilding Britain after the Blitz, President Mary McAleese said yesterday.

Bosses from Jaguar will be quizzed by British MPs today over the controversial decision to end production of the luxury car in Coventry.

IT is ironic that even as four very typical GAA units prepare for the most special of all GAA club days, the rank and file members throughout the considerable GAA world who make up those clubs will be denied a very basic right - the right to debate an issue that has risen to the forefront of GAA thinking.

Computer giant Microsoft has been forced to apologise after swastika symbols were found on new copies of a popular software package.

SITTING in front of your computer screen for long hours could be lethal, a report has warned.