2017 was dominated by knives, rural crime, burglaries and gangland feuds, reports Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe.

To mark Father’s Day, Ruth O’Connor asks celebrities to write a letter to their dads. The emotional results reveal the incredible bond between Irish fathers and their sons.

Former president of the United States, Richard Nixon, ensured Father’s Day carried the weight of law.

What if the unthinkable happened? What if you almost lost your child? As Father’s Day approaches, Helen O’Callaghan talks to three dads who experienced just this and ask how the experience impacted on them as fathers

Who needs breakfast in bed? The very brave Pat Fitzpatrick explains why he thinks Mother’s Day should be abandoned altogether. 

I’m flipping this year’s column for Mother’s Day, though we certainly don’t want to forget about hugs, breakfast in bed and sweet little primroses for Mum, says Darina Allen.

A day out from St Patrick’s Day festivities, New York’s 7th Avenue cut a more Irish hue than ever before.

The Taoiseach has put his Cabinet and junior ministers on “24 hours’ notice” to return to Ireland from their St Patrick’s Day trips in the event of Brexit being triggered during their absence.

It seems somehow fitting that Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s week-long US St Patrick’s Day lap of honour should start with presidential election controversy, the plight of immigrants, and outspoken comments by a man who now has nothing to lose.

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.

There’s no escape from the oblivious third wheel.

One World Trade Center in New York City — rebuilt after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks — is to go green on St Patrick’s Day for the first time.

Finding it difficult to keep the spark alive with your long-term partner? Here’s 8 ways to fan the flame of passion this Valentine’s Day, writes Carolyn Moore.

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.

Stephen’s Day, or to give it its proper title Stephenses….es n  Day is an underrated day. (The added es is part of a great Irish tradition of adding ‘extreme possessiveness’ to certain nouns to be sure, to be sure. Another example would be Jameseses Street in Dublin.)

Involvement in a major “derby” game on St Stephen’s Day used to be a novelty for Munster’s New Zealand out-half Tyler Bleyendaal. It’s high summer and off-season back home where he would normally be enjoying the beach and sunshine.

St Patrick’s Day celebrations ended with a big bang at a Limerick city housing estate.

Ireland’s most important celebration is about to begin and no, it’s not St Patrick’s Day.

With Father’s Day tomorrow, well-known faces look back with Vicki Notaro to their memories of the day they became dads.

It’s summer at last and Father’s Day too, Esther N McCarthy reminds us — in plenty of time to buy that card.

A teenager has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack on an Australian Veteran’s Day ceremony — the second year in a row that authorities say they have thwarted an attack linked to the national holiday.

Limerick City’s St Patrick’s Day parade grand marshal, Myles Breen, summed it up well: “What an audience.”

Cork City’s St Patrick’s Day parade was colourful in more ways than one, with every race represented as hundreds of non-nationals mingled with locals to join the celebration.

Under glorious blue skies, the St Patrick’s Day parade snaked through Dublin, led by disability campaigner Joanne O’Riordan.

THE banners are up along Cork city’s St Patrick’s Street for today’s St Patrick’s Day parade — and, selling agents DTZ Sherry FitzGerald have just this week managed to snake in a large ‘Sold’ sign on a high-profile building on this retail thoroughfare which bears the saint’s name.

Pornhub Insights has researched how St. Patrick’s Day affects porn searches, "in honor of everyone’s favourite day to get lucky".

Attendees at the White House’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations on March 15 broke into song with a rendition of Ireland’s Call.

There is nothing that raises our patriotic hackles more than hearing St. Patrick’s Day referred to as ’Patty’s Day’.

The number of ministerial trips abroad for the traditional St Patrick’s Day celebrations have been cut by two thirds this year in the wake of the collapse of the Fine Gael-Labour coalition.

Here’s one lady who’s staunchly refusing to let International Women’s Day pass unnoticed in her home town.

Give your mum the gift of me-time with an indulgent pampering present this Mother’s Day. 

The problem with Mother’s Day is not that it exists but that it is just one day. In my view we

As he took to the stage to present his party’s €4.1bn manifesto, Fine Gael’s director of elections Brian Hayes attempted to win back voters’ wandering hearts. Noting the February 14 date, the MEP held up the 136-page document before telling the waiting audience of journalists and party colleagues: “Happy Valentine’s Day, I hope your dreams come through.”