In politics, the benefits of talking like a real person as Donald Trump does are questionable, especially in a winner-takes-all electoral system like the US, writes Leonid Bershidsky

This is not another story about how drugs can screw you up. This is a story about how Europe’s appetite for drugs screws up the lives of hundreds of millions of others, writes Alex Perry

This week Cork man and  car enthusiast, Peter Burke, shares his motoring passions.

AM I alone in questioning Fianna Fáil’s interpretation of patriotism?

NEW car sales are slowing to a halt after a 41% drop in models sold last month.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley yesterday delivered the first carbon budget in the history of the State — the first of its kind in Western Europe — claiming it marked the moment climate change moved to the heart of government.

THE newly appointed Green Party ministers will be eager not to appear too reliant on typical gas-guzzling ministerial cars.

THE sad death of a Limerick woman during cosmetic surgery in the United States made my mobile phone work overtime, this past week, as journalists worked on follow-up stories. The questions came thick and fast.

CHARLIE McCreevy will have a big enough Brussels salary to allow him follow his famous champagne lifestyle, but he might not have enough time to spend it.

An operation to remove the wreck of a huge car carrier which has blocked part of the English Channel for more than six months was due to move into its main phase today.

The shipwrecked Tricolor could continue to be an obstacle in the world’s busiest shipping lane for months to come, the French Navy said today.

A cargo ship that hit the sunken vessel Tricolor in the English Channel was tonight heading for port under its own power.

A cargo ship which collided with a sunken Norwegian vessel has been pulled free.

A cargo ship has run into the sunken Tricolor, the vessel that sank in the English Channel, taking with it luxury cars worth €46.6m, shipping sources said today.

THE operation to salvage a cargo ship which sank in the English Channel carrying over €45 million worth of luxury cars was continuing yesterdayThe Tricolor, a Norwegian-registered car carrier, had 2,862 BMWs, Volvos and Saabs on board bound for British and US showrooms when it collided with the Bahamas-registered container ship Kariba in bad weather 30 miles east of Ramsgate.

Bad weather today hampered the salvage operation on a cargo ship which sank in the English Channel taking with it £30 million of luxury cars.

Efforts to salvage a cargo ship which sank in the English Channel while carrying €46.5m worth of luxury cars are continuing today.