EU agriculture commissioner Phil Hogan has insisted there will be no hard border in Ireland “under any circumstances” even if Britain crashes out of the EU next Friday.

The unprecedented growth of student accommodation in Cork City over the past two years has raised concerns.

A €200m building spend at 11 institutes of technology will create extra spaces for around 8,000 students in state-of-the-art facilities for everything from catering to computer science.

The University of Limerick (UL) could be forced to repay part of the €450,000 paid in severance to two former managers who were rehired as consultants, TDs have been told.

Aisling Devitt is one of a growing number of students choosing apprenticeships over college, writes Education Correspondent Niall Murray. 

Spurred on by support from Fine Gael grassroots members, Simon Coveney tells Juno McEnroe he believes he can still steal the crown from firm favourite Leo Varadkar

Third-level bosses face a severe grilling by TDs over gaps in their evidence to the Dáil Public Accounts Committee about financial affairs.

University of Limerick continued to make consultancy payments to a retired financial controller after he turned 60 and was also receiving a pension, the Dáil Public Accounts Committee has been told.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland is to seek the complete removal of extra lecturing hours imposed as part of the Croke Park Agreement.

The Higher Education Authority is to appoint an international expert to validate an internal review of processes within Waterford Institute of Technology, following a request by the president of the college.

It has not yet been established beyond reasonable doubt whether US President Donald Trump’s extraordinary complexion is a consequence of global warming or some other human activity. 

Truth is really stranger than fiction in the life of Dr Aidan MacCarthy and Bob Jackson’s account, while scrupulous on detail, doesn’t get bogged down with it, writes Eoghan O’Sullivan.

Author Bob Jackson tells Eoghan O’Sullivan how he was blown away by the amazing survival story of West Cork doctor Aidan MacCarthy in the Second World War

The shortage of chefs in Kerry is so severe that the county council yesterday discussed calling on the the Department of Tourism to intervene.

Two local men are hoping to put the Kerry village of Sneem on the map for its food speciality.

The students down in Kerry have wasted no time in getting into the Christmas spirit.

The students down in Kerry have wasted no time in getting into the Christmas spirit.

Tralee’s Rose Festival has just wound up for its 32 contestants — and also this week a mixed use development in the town comes for sale with practically an apartment or commercial unit in it for each of the Roses.

A Waterford technology firm has been named as one of the world’s ‘most promising’ by the World Economic Forum.

When Paddy McConigley was growing up kicking football for his local Fanad Gaels club at Triaghalough in north-west Donegal, little did he know where the wind on the gusty peninsula would take him.

A big offender is the Coombe Women’s Hospital. Its energy use has rocketed by 89% since 2009 writes Victoria White

Dzokhar Tsarnaev was yesterday found guilty of killing three people and injuring 264 others in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and of fatally shooting a police officer four days later.

Concern has been voiced by the public spending watchdog about more than €300,000 spent by the Institute of Technology, Tralee, on consultant fees for the design of the Kerry Sports Academy without capital funding for the project being in place.

SINCE the EU introduced regulations leading to a huge reduction of sheep on the hills we’ve been hearing complaints about uncontrolled vegetation that can result in fires that sometimes get out of control. At certain times of the year, farmers set fires to burn off scrub to allow fresh grass grow.

Many degrees in study areas with increased demand, such as computing and engineering, are among dozens that will accept fresh applications this afternoon.

An All-Ireland-winning footballer will today aim to set a Guinness World Record for completing the longest journey reversing a tractor and trailer.

Three out of the top 10 ‘green hotels’ in Ireland are in Cork. However, concern has been expressed about the poor uptake of the scheme in Kerry, where no hotels made it into even the top 20.

Budding film-makers and actors are taking inspiration from the life of a courageous teenager who promoted an anti-suicide message among his peers.

Ex-chairman of Institute of Technology Tralee Flan Garvey has offered to “go back and clean up the mess that is damaging” it.

A county development plan for Kerry will be supportive of small indigenous industries, it was stated yesterday.

A team of leading academics will meet staff and students of Institute of Technology, Tralee (ITT) next month in a research degree review prompted by the plagiarism case of the college’s former chairman.

Remember the parody of Pulp Fiction that was done months ago by a couple of Kerry students?

Teagasc has named new agricultural colleges principals — Majella Moloney in Teagasc Agricultural College, Clonakilty, Co Cork; and John Kelly in Teagasc Agricultural College, Ballyhaise, Co Cavan.

Clare manager Davy Fitzgerald is playing down his knowledge of the Limerick team ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland SHC semi-final showdown between the counties at Croke Park.

The Education Minister has announced a major reorganisation of higher education - including the setting up of three new Technological Universities.

Considering that I appeared only briefly in last Monday night’s documentary, In the Name of the Republic, about the War of Independence in Cork, I was surprised to find that John Borgonovo had so much to say about me in his response to the programme (Examiner, 27/3/2013).

The State is paying out over €10m each year in pensions to 103 retired public servants.

He’s more familiar with Kill Bill than with Killarney, but that hasn’t stopped director Quentin Tarantino from enjoying a Kerry-style redub of his classic film Pulp Fiction.

The chairman of Institute of Technology Tralee has handed over his duties on the governing body while claims he plagiarised other people’s work for a degree at the college are investigated.