Fifteen talented traditional musicians will take to the stage of the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork this Friday to compete in the final of the Séan Ó Riada Gold Medal Competition, broadcast live on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta.

Fifteen talented traditional musicians will take to the stage of the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork this Friday to compete in the final of the Séan Ó Riada Gold Medal Competition, broadcast live on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta.

The new chairman of the Simon Communities of Ireland has called on Nama to disclose details of its vacant property portfolio after a minister said empty houses and apartments could be used to ease homelessness.

Initial findings of research into housing for people who are homeless in Ireland indicates a "concerning trend" of demand outstripping availability of appropriate housing.

The Irish Dairy Board (IDB) has appointed Fergal McGarry as global marketing and innovation director as part of its post-milk quota export strategy.

A MAN accused of murdering a Chinese student made a brief court appearance just under a week since the victim’s boyfriend watched helplessly through a webcam as she struggled with an attacker.

A dishevelled man appeared in a Toronto court today charged with murdering a Chinese woman whose scuffle with her assailant was seen on webcam by her helpless boyfriend back home thousands of miles away.

CONVENT school head girl Kate Sheedy told her parents she thought she was going to die after being run over by bus-stop killer Levi Bellfield.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney has dismissed any suggestion that the staff freeze imposed by the Health Service Executive (HSE) this month could be impacting on patient care.

THE use of medical marijuana has given two Toronto professors the right to something that many students could only dream of — access to specially ventilated rooms where they can indulge in peace.

A British journalist kidnapped in Iraq told tonight how he feared he would die at the hands of his captors.

An Egyptian vase that for 30 years was dismissed as fake by experts, was revealed as genuine – and older than the Pyramids.

IDIOT stick figure with no soul, face like a bulldog chewing on a wasp. Nasty — but when it comes to snaring the object of her affections, no woman can stoop too low.

Two maintenance engineers have been placed under formal investigation following the freak death of a British tourist at an Italian railway station.

A retired British professor who was crushed to death at a railway station in Italy may have died because panels on a moving walkway were not replaced after maintenance, it emerged today.