Kerry's Colm Cooper has revealed the reason he brought the curtain down on his inter-county career.

The world-renowned Coolmore Stud has been ordered by an Employment Appeals Tribunal to pay €18,000 to a former stable hand who was dismissed after he took €220.

The Stardust fire was worst tragedy of its kind to hit the country, writes Michael Clifford.

It’s not just the US that’s worried about Donald Trump possibly becoming president. In Denmark there’s a new campaign to encourage Americans abroad to vote next month, and it’s genius.

A man shot dead by Danish police early today is likely to have been behind the shootings at a free speech event and a synagogue in Copenhagen, an investigator says.

Two widowers whose wives died due to maternity service mistakes have urged the HSE to “learn the lessons” of what happened after admitting they still have “worries and concerns” over care standards.

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ALL-IRELAND SFC SEMI-FINAL REPLAY:

Your recent article (Nov 11), ‘Parents rally over withdrawal of vital Supports,’ said the HSE had insisted that there had been “no alteration in the guidelines” for the allocation of medical cards.

Castlehaven centre-back Damien Cahalane, right, will be available for Sunday’s Munster Club SFC quarter-final with Dr Crokes.

All fixtures are tomorrow unless stated

‘Passports — Globalisation in Contemporary European Video’ is an exhibition of video art in the Glucksman Gallery, UCC, curated by Chris Clarke.

A woman who sued for damages over an allegedly botched breast augmentation operation has settled her High Court action.

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It’s long been a refuge for hippies, celebrities, and retiring Germans, but West Cork has now emerged as a tax haven for the world’s highest-paid musician.

The late Fine Gael leader and taoiseach Garret FitzGerald used a close ancestral connection with US president Ronald Reagan to help sway Margaret Thatcher towards the Anglo-Irish agreement.

ONLY VIP fans are allowed on the set of The Killing 3. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, was presented with a “Sarah Lund sweater” by actress Sofie Grabol when she went on location in Denmark earlier this year, but commoners — especially journalistic ones — are barred from entry.

The number of suspected terrorists arrested in Ireland reached a new high last year.

Des O’Driscoll picks his highlights from the coming week’s TV schedule

Danish voters appeared set to elect their first female prime minister today and end 10 years of pro-market reforms and a hardening of immigration laws.

THEIR pursuit over the last decade has been frustrating and fruitless but yesterday brought atonement for Dr Crokes in the form of their seventh Kerry football title.

IN response to the letter from Edward Lynch (March 17), I would like to point out to him that the HSE has not spent €51 million on public relations services or “spin doctors,” as was inaccurately reported in a headline in the Irish Examiner (February 24).

I WAS pleased to be invited by RTÉ to take part in a discussion recently on the merits or otherwise of the singing of God Save The Queen in Croke Park on behalf of the English team on February 24.

THE DUP have been highly critical of the possible Assembly link between the UUP and David Irvine of the PUP because of his association with loyalist paramilitaries.

A network of Danish Muslim organisations will bring Denmark before an international human rights court for not pressing charges against the newspaper that first published the contentious Prophet Mohammed cartoons, Danish radio reported today.

Manchester United look set to take their transfer window spending past the £10m (€14.5m) mark with the capture of French defender Patrice Evra from Monaco.

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BIOTRIN, one of the country’s oldest and most successful biotech companies, recorded a five-fold increase in profits last year.

Organisers of a concert celebrating 50 years of the Eurovision Song Contest today revealed the 14 songs to be performed in a live television show on October 22.

In a meeting in Armagh today, the leaders of Ireland’s four main churches (Dr Russell Birney, Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Dr Sean Brady, Roman Catholic Church, Dr Robin Eames, Church of Ireland and Rev Winston Graham, Methodist Church in Ireland) called for an immediate end to the street violence which has disrupted communities in Belfast in recent weeks and issued the following statement.