The AA Hotel of the Year has been announced for 2019.

Hot metal, cool stools, fluttering butterflies and expensive wild leather furniture, crafted by hand. All part of this week’s list from Esther N McCarthy.

Ireland’s smartest student fears he will have to leave the country to get a job when he leaves university.

David Cullen, owner of the Turk’s Head Bar and Paramount Hotel in Dublin’s Temple Bar, has denied he engaged in “extraordinary” transactions with his wife Mary to avoid repaying €29m loans taken over by Nama.