Former US Secretary of State John Kerry has been announced as a keynote speaker at Ireland’s flagship blue economy conference Our Ocean Wealth at City Hall Cork in June.

An Irishman has been stabbed at a Portuguese holiday resort, it has been confirmed by Portugese police.

A creative, relevant and agile government response is required to the tax probe launched by the EU into Apple, the concerns of the US Senate and the widely reported comments of governor Jerry Brown of California.

The newly-elected Government at its meeting today, on the nomination of the Taoiseach Enda Kenny, has appointed Ministers of State and assigned them to departments with the particular areas of responsibility set out below.