It was a time when nothing else mattered. An entire season’s toil and effort distilled into a handful of knockout schools’ cup matches, all geared towards making the final on St Patrick’s Day.

International Women’s Day is always an occasion for celebrating powerful women. Sarah Carey certainly qualifies for that today, and not just for her brilliant camogie skills.

You will hear about International Women’s Day all day today, writes Victoria White. 

Ministers will be in campaign mode during their St Patrick’s Day trips around the world with Ireland pushing hard to win a seat on the UN Security Council.

Mother’s Day, like crinoline and the pay gap and sending your sons off to die in a war, belongs in the past, writes Suzanne Harrington

More than 300 stadiums, statues, museums and towers worldwide are set to go green to celebrate St Patrick’s Day next month.

The morning of February 6 60 years ago was much like any other winter’s day in Manchester. By the evening the city was plunged into grief.

Belfast’s St Patrick’s Day festival should become a three-day weekend event to rival some of the world’s largest cities, a report from Féile an Phobail said.

The government has revealed where ministers are being sent for St Patrick’s Day.

With today being unofficially named as the ‘busiest day of the year for booking holidays’, it’s only right to share this clever way of stretching your precious days of annual leave a bit further.

Munster boss Johann van Graan is relying on his players to have moved on from their St Stephen’s Day defeat at home to Leinster when they travel to face Ulster on New Year’s Day.

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Middlesbrough have appointed Tony Pulis as manager following the departure of Garry Monk.

Public holidays are the busiest times for self-harm emergencies, with St Patrick’s Day the worst of all, according to the first study of its type in Ireland.

I understand it’s been a good-humoured week for many in Ireland, what with St Patrick’s Day, the rugby international, and the prospective break-up of the increasingly ludicrous United Kingdom.

St Patrick’s Day gets bigger and better every year, as more than 100 million people around the world celebrate our national holiday with the Irish diaspora.

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered around the county at parades celebrating St Patrick’s Day today and our voideographers were maonth them. Check out some of the sights and sounds they captured on their travels.

Enda Kenny has sparked fresh speculation over when he will step down after a draft version of his speech to a major event last night initially said it would be his last Patrick’s Day as Taoiseach — before the line was deleted entirely from the script.

Peter Dowdall on the award-winning garden podcast set to land in Salt Lake City around St Patrick’s Day.

Glenstal Abbey 21  Ardscoil Rís 20 Munster Schools Senior Cup, Thomond Park: Amid tremendous excitement and high drama at Thomond Park yesterday, Glenstal Abbey bridged a 47-year gap when they just survived a magnificent rally by Ardscoil Rís to qualify to meet PBC in the final of the Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup on St Patrick’s Day.

A former US presidential election candidate has set up a petition calling on Taoiseach Enda Kenny to boycott the traditional White House St Patrick’s Day meeting with Donald Trump.

Fine Gael ministers believe they will have a new leader by Easter after Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he will “conclusively” address his future after he returns from his White House visit for St Patrick’s Day.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s controversial St Patrick’s Day meeting with US president Donald Trump will take place during an expanded trade mission, writes political correspondent Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

Valentine’s Day will always be a special anniversary for Irish chocolate maker, writes Trish Dromey.

Kya deLongchamps looks at the ancient roots and courtly early expressions of St Valentine’s Day.

If you want to surprise someone this Valentine’s Day in the most extravagant way possible, Ciara McDonnell has done the homework for you — from a quick trip to Paris to a few nights in Las Vegas.

It was announced yesterday that Taoiseach Enda Kenny will visit the White House for the by-now annual St Patrick’s Day expression of fealty.

The US Embassy in Dublin announced that Taoiseach Enda Kenny will visit the White House on St Patrick’s Day, reports Irish Examiner political reporter, Joyce Fegan.

The All-Ireland senior club finals will have later throw-in times on St Patrick’s Day in Croke Park this year.

So much racing to busy ourselves with on St Stephen’s Day, and, at Leopardstown, Castello Sforza gets the nap to step up on his promising hurdling debut.

A Limerick man who fired a shotgun to protect his family from a group who had been out celebrating St Patrick’s Day was yesterday found not guilty of the illegal discharge of a firearm and causing criminal damage to a car owned by the people he felt under threat from.

A 71-year-old bachelor farmer was “out cold” on Main St in Cahersiveen at 4pm on St Patrick’s Day because he had taken so much drink, the district court was told.