Joe Dermody reflects on 40 years of Apple in Ireland.

From Willie Mullins’ point of view, Allaho in the Beginners’ Chase and Jon Snow and The Big Getaway in the maiden hurdles are the key horses this weekend.

Forestry expert and fireman Morgan Roche is fighting the ferocious bushfires in Australia, where he has lived for 20 years, says Nicky Sullivan

Kilcoo trained on New Year’s Eve night and would have trained on Christmas Day too if their management team hadn’t called a halt.

Sizing John is on course to try to reclaim the Paddy Power Irish Gold Cup on February 2.

Apple’s chief executive officer, Tim Cook, will meet with the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, in Dublin, later this month, to receive an award from the Government. It is in recognition of the company’s 40 years of investment in Ireland, according to IDA Ireland.

A GAA club is holding an urgent meeting with council officials and gardaí this week after further damage to its two pitches by joyriders over Christmas had put its “survival at stake”.

The 2017 Cheltenham Gold Cup hero returned from 733-day break in a conditions hurdle on New Year’s Eve.

A ruling by the Dutch Supreme Court - that the country must press ahead with significant cuts in carbon emissions - could prove a breakthrough for climate activists, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Here’s a new year wish: May our politicians remain clothed while there are cameras around.

Someone in Limerick is €1 million richer this morning following the National Lottery's Millionaire Raffle.

The global community needs to come together to tackle climate change in 2020, according to the President of Ireland.

At precisely this time last year, I resisted temptation. On or about New Year’s Eve every year, I hazard a few guesses (for the delectation of readers) about what the coming year will bring.

The week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is a strange one.

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Hollywood loves to ring in the New Year.

A lot may have changed in the last 20 years, but in many ways, few lessons have been learned from how we lived in the late 1990s and early 2000s, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Ciara McDonnell shares seven of the best places to ring in the new year abroad.

Jessica Harrington’s 2017 Cheltenham Gold Cup hero Sizing John is set to make his return from a two-year absence at Punchestown on New Year’s Eve after pleasing connections in a post-racing workout at the County Kildare circuit on Sunday.

The Clonakilty 400 Masterplan puts people first, writes Giulia Vallone

I always say the first gig I ever attended was at home growing up in Athy, Co Kildare when late one night I was awoken by the sound of the adults having a bit of an ol’ session in the house after the pub.

It’s 80 years since Kerry won the All-Ireland in the Dingle colours of red and white that were originally a set of Cork jerseys.

A woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death told gardaí that they were probably fighting about something stupid and that she "wasn’t letting him get the better" of her when she stabbed him.

Tomasz Paszkiewicz has been cleared of murder, but convicted of the manslaughter of fellow Polish man Marek Swider in Co Cavan, who he killed with a boning knife from a meat factory’s ‘kill floor’.

A jury has retired to consider its verdict in the murder trial of a meat factory worker, who killed his poker opponent with a knife from the factory’s ‘kill floor’.

A meat factory worker told gardai that he ‘probably’ got the knife that he used on the factory’s ‘kill floor’ from his kitchen before using it to kill his poker opponent at their Cavan home.

A judge has praised a young Cavan woman who came to the aid of a dying man on the street as she left work on New Year’s Eve.

A 39-year-old man has admitted killing his housemate, following a row over a New Year’s Eve poker game at their Cavan home. He stabbed him with a knife he used in his job on the ‘kill floor’ in a meat plant.

The day my Leaving Cert results were issued, I was in Spain, writes Louise O'Neill.

A mother has been jailed for 28 days after a court heard her daughter had missed 125 days of school out of the last 156 days she could have attended.

Creativity and innovation, along with an eye for design and detail, plus getting the attention of the most discerning clients, has helped make an Irish success story abroad, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

An order to stay out of church was made against a 62-year-old man at Cork District Court yesterday.

Peter Cluskey recounts how his wife, Adrienne, died on New Year's Eve after a Dutch hospital "lost" tests results in 2011 that showed she had cancer.

Horses for courses will be one of the themes of Cheltenham Festival week with history consistently showing the importance of course form when it comes to the four most magical days in the racing calendar.

It has become an all-too-familiar refrain now but we remain in some sort of limbo until we get a serious drop of rain. It’s good, good-to-yielding ground, there are people mowing lawns, midges flying around – there’s nothing Januaryesque about it, writes Ruby Walsh.

Worrying times for Seamus Coleman. And, by extension, Mick McCarthy.

The sun may be weak as the new year eases into existence, but the fire was still burning in the belly of Liam Ó Maonlaoí — so full of fuinneamh, energy-sapping fuinneamh — in Hothouse Flowers’ New Year’s Eve concert at Cork Opera House.

Audrey's been sorting out Cork people for ages...

More than €436m in prizes was won by lotto players over the past 12 months.

Ciara McDonnell has the best hotel packages to help you ring out the old year and celebrate the new.

So, the post-Fergie era consigns another manager’s Old Trafford reign to the history books, and with David Moyes’ six-year contract still having six months to run too!

Desserts at Christmas aren't just about the traditional cake. Michelle Darmody shares some other options for afters.

It’s usually around this time that I’m asked to share any advice I might have for the newest college freshers and I look over my shoulder, panicked, searching for a Real Adult in the vicinity. 

The tag of up and coming is one that comes affixed with an expiry date, and for the