Two males and two females confirmed with the virus in the west of Ireland

Ireland's Chief Medical Officer has said that fear and anxiety in relation to the coronavirus is understandable - and said that it is important that the public stay informed.

The change in the weather earlier this week was about as welcome as Conor McGregor at the St Patrick’s Day parade in Chicago on Sunday.

Irish people in America and Americans of Irish descent, many other Americans too, have made many contributions to this island.

He may have been too small to see the parade as a child but Olympic medal winner Rob Heffernan was walking tall as he led the St Patrick’s Day parade through his native city.

The alarm was raised at around 8.30am when smoke was seen billowing from the roof of L’Atitude 51 wine bar on the junction of Anglesea St and Union Quay.

McGregor refused to answer media questions at the parade about his recent arrest.

"I am very proud to be from Ireland but even prouder to be from Cork,"

Children’s author Deirdre Sullivan appears at the Towers and Tales festival in Lismore on Saturday. She also works as an SEN teacher, and currently lives in Dublin, writes Des O’Driscoll

Irish Girl Guides is all about empowering girls and women and encouraging them to dream big and fulfil their ambitions.

Irish Coast Guard volunteers are set to get the keys to a US city after marching in its St Patrick’s Day Parade this weekend.

A Dublin man is set to complete a Guinness World Record by becoming the oldest person to circumnavigate the globe by bicycle.

Eight months of celebration — around a cup?

Rickshaw-type trishaws are taking residents out of the nursing home and back to nature. It’s about Cycling Without Age, says Margaret Jennings.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has risked deepening the increasingly bitter Fine Gael war over when he will step down by saying he has no intention of leaving until the Northern Ireland political crisis is resolved.

It was a busy day of parades across the country yesterday...

Enda Kenny will meet with US president Donald Trump in the White House on the morning of March 16. 

Four retired Tralee grandmothers are attempting to take “a wrecking ball” to perceptions of older women.

A pioneer of puppetry and visual street theatre in Ireland will be remembered as puppets take over Cork next month.

One man’s emphatic rejection of what he called the "ponce and wonce [sic]" of the St Patrick’s Day parade has gone viral since it was posted on March 16.

The Anglo-Norman or Geraldine roots of Tralee founded 800 years ago will be celebrated in a year-long series of events, beginning on St Patrick’s Day.

Another glance at the activities 100 years ago this week of key figures in the upcoming Rising, as recorded by authorities at the time, or recalled later by the participants.

Classic vacations

A county councillor has told a court he is facing bankruptcy as a result of failed business dealings.

As straight-talking rugby pundit George Hook begins to wind down his illustrious career, the broadcaster has taken to the airwaves to credit his media work with saving his life.

Yesterday the world celebrated Ireland's patron saint with parades across the county and around the globe.

A BOY scout once, I would have been on Church Parade yesterday. 

It’s the country’s most internationally renowned celebration, and everybody knows it. All across the world, people with itchy feet are making bucket lists — Brazil for Carnivale, India for Holi, and Ireland for St Patrick’s Day.

Nuala Woulfe says Kildare’s long links with the reptile suggest it’s the ‘snakiest place in Ireland’

One of Cork’s leading arts groups is set to get its first permanent home in a legendary former cinema.

The St Patrick’s Day parade in New York City is to allow a group of gay employees from NBC to march next year.

The St Patrick’s Day parade in New York drew fewer television viewers in the US than the parade in Dublin had on RTÉ.

For the record, I have both French and Irish ancestry, and grew up Catholic during the days of “Dominus vobiscum”.

Two teenagers were yesterday arrested in connection with an assault on Aston Quay, Dublin, During Monday’s St Patrick’s Day parade.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he was “proud” to march for his country in the St Patrick’s Day parade in New York, despite criticism by gay rights campaigners who protested at yesterday’s event.

There aren’t too many men who can run the rule over Paul O’Connell but IRFU president Pat Fitzgerald became one of those hallowed few yesterday.