When he died just weeks before our February election the constitutional politician Seamus Mallon’s backstory and achievements were unknown, or at least underappreciated, by a swathe of our electorate.

Conway has been rewarded with his longest Munster contract yet, a three-year deal, after a year in which he became Munster's third-highest try-scorer in history.

IT has been a fresh start for Keith Earls in more ways than one, these past few months since the World Cup.

Eamonn MJ Coffey, counsel for Garda Golden’s widow, Nicola, and the couple’s three young children, told Mr Justice Michael Twomey in the High Court today that a mediator had been agreed

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Gardaí are seeking the public's help in tracing the whereabouts of Andrew Brady, 31 years, who is missing from the Athlumney area of Navan since 04/12/2019.

Seventeen-year-old speed skater Tara Donoghue was left feeling somewhat bittersweet after becoming the first Irish ice skater to claim a quota spot at a Youth Olympic Games — only to realise she’s overage

Less than half an hour had passed following Ireland’s World Cup quarter-final defeat to New Zealand before Mike Ross took to Twitter.

All issues are still in play in the claim by the widow and family of murdered Garda Tony Golden for compensation, the High Court was told today. Mr Justice Michael Twomey heard the trial may take up to five days.

Ireland’s women will meet the Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, India and South Africa in the group stages of the Olympic Games following confirmation of the final entrants on Saturday.

“Of course, I am willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required.”

When starting out as a comedian, Cork man Andrew Ryan decided to go to straight to London, sidestepping the usual starting ground of Irish clubs and pubs.

Police Scotland said a 77-year-old man was arrested in the north of England on Wednesday morning and charged in relation to the deaths of Renee MacRae and her son Andrew.

Journalists Alan Owens and Andrew Carey have been appointed as communications officers at University of Limerick.

Joe Schmidt on ...

Ireland’s deep backline resources for the forthcoming World Cup campaign have been underlined by the quality of the players Joe Schmidt has decided to leave at home.

The appeals board approved the apartment plan in spite of the strong recommendation by its own inspector to refuse planning.

A dispute between members of a family whose firm sells and makes jewellery including the world-famous Claddagh rings has been adjourned for mediation talks.

Dora the Explorer, a wallaby who escaped from an animal centre in Cork, has been found safe and well in Kilworth after her little "holiday" in the county over recent days.

As children become the focus of the summer exhibition at the Crawford, some of the participating artists tell Ellie O'Byrne about their own childhoods.

As investigative journalist and Irish author Tim MacGabhann reported on the drug cartels in Mexico, he was also supporting them through his own drug use. The experience helped inspire his debut novel, writes Marjorie Brennan

A dispute between members of a family whose firm sells and makes jewellery, including the world-famous Claddagh rings, has come before the High Court.

A Limerick man who was released on a day pass from a psychiatric unit and suffered life changing injuries when he fell from a multi-storey car park has settled his High Court action against the HSE for €7.25m.

Ireland has secured at least two medals at the European Games.

Gardaí overseeing the search for a missing man in Cork have recovered the body of a man from the Owenabue river.

Searches are underway for two Cork men who are missing in separate, unrelated, disappearances in the Carrigaline and Crosshaven areas.

Andrew Willis, 36, was last seen walking along a private road from his friend's house late in the Coolmore area of Carrigaline last Monday evening.

Ireland head coach Noel McNamara has made two enforced changes to his starting line-up for today’s crunch World Rugby U20 Championship Pool B clash with Australia in Santa Fe, Argentina (2.30pm Irish time).

Law firm OSM Partners has appointed Andrew Croughan as new partner and head of personal insolvency, and Raymond Lambe as new partner in the corporate and commercial litigation department.

A “deeply disappointed” junior minister Andrew Doyle openly defied his party's instructions not to canvass in Cork and Tipperary amid an escalating feud between Fine Gael's Ireland South candidates.

At Ireland’s training camp in Portugal, Luca Connell is telling us how his unexpected call-up has disrupted his summer holiday plans. Not that he’s complaining, mind.

“It’s crazy, it’s surreal to be honest. Especially meeting Seamus Coleman, you know. Being from Liverpool but supporting Everton and supporting him through everything, it’s brilliant for me.”

With Rosalia Long’s Zumba moves triggering positive feelings left, right and centre, Beaumont Girls National School was as good a place as any to re-energise for the final week of European Elections campaigning.

A major row has erupted within Fine Gael after junior minister Andrew Doyle was ordered not to attend a hustings event next week, after previously being told he could go.

A nine-year-old boy left brain damaged and permanently disabled after a failure to diagnose an infection when he was a baby has settled his High Court action against Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin with a final record damages payment of €25m.

Each week, Denise O'Donoghue profiles one of the runners taking part in the ‘Irish Examiner’ Cork City marathon this June

A boy must leave the home he shares with his mother and grandmother in England and move to live with his father in Northern Ireland, a family court judge in London has decided.

A 36-year-old paramedic who assaulted two female first aid students when he placed them in a chokehold six years ago was today described as ‘timid’ by a retired Garda.

Airbnb has apologised to a family who discovered they were being live streamed by a hidden camera at their accommodation.

Ulster may have achieved their goal in leapfrogging Benetton in the chase for a Guinness PRO14 knock-out place, but there was mixed news in the aftermath of Saturday’s win over Southern Kings for coach Dan McFarland ahead of next week’s Champions Cup quarter-final with Leinster.

Marcell Coetzee marked his comeback for Ulster with one of their five tries in a 33-19 Guinness PRO14 win over the Southern Kings.

Declan Lavery has had his 10-day riding ban quashed following an appeal heard by an independent disciplinary panel at the headquarters of the British Horseracing Authority on Thursday.

It is a recurring theme in a coach’s lexicon when discussing the loss of players to both injury or poor form that one player’s misfortune is another’s opportunity.

Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime...