On Saturday, Kilkenny was filled with thoughts of tightrope walking, fire juggling that has burned more than a few, and a horse-and-pony show that still keeps at least some entertained.

Molly Sterling represents Ireland in the Eurovision semi-final on Thursday.

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Hundreds of mourners have attended the funerals of the victims of last week’s horror car crash which took the lives of four young women in Kildare.

A woman whose roof was blown open by a massive lightning strike said she thought she was going to be killed.

THE Charlie Swan-trained Make A Track emerged victorious after a tremendous battle with front-running Ceol Rua in the Goresbridge Novice Hurdle in Gowran Park yesterday.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen has depicted his short time in office as a "trial and test" during which he battled to fix past mistakes.

“IT’S a job for life,” says Ber Pey, surveying the tanking operation that’s been completed in the ground floor of 3 Newenham Terrace.

If you can keep your head when all about you

HE ROSE a taoiseach and sat down as Bertie the backbencher.

BRIAN COWEN has said the most urgent task facing him is to get the Lisbon treaty passed.

Newly-elected Taoiseach Brian Cowen was tonight close to tears as he paid tribute to his family and his late father whose Dáil seat he inherited.

IN HIS memoir One Spin on the Merry-Go-Round, former government press secretary Seán Duignan recalls an episode involving Brian Cowen that, to many of those who know him, captures perfectly the next taoiseach.

Parents of deaf children living outside Dublin face an education dilemma, writes Conor Ryan

Colin Montgomerie is considering calling time on his Ryder Cup playing career to succeed Bernhard Langer as captain.

ALL four provinces will be represented in tomorrow’s All-Ireland club camogie championship finals at Cusack Park, Mullingar.

A man accused of murdering a profoundly deaf young man told gardai that he repeatedly punched the victim but that he never intended to kill him, a garda witness told the Central Criminal Court today.