Many Democrats are sceptical that a socialist could make it the White House, but Bernie Sanders is gaining momentum, writes Joseph Ax

Tributes have been paid following the death of Joe Kavanagh, one of the oldest people in Ireland, aged 105.

For the first time in the history of the State, more than 30% of the candidates running in the general election are women.

"It's the culture around him. It's his leadership team."

Fianna Fail's Padraig O'Sullivan claimed the seat in the Cork North-Central by-election on the tenth count.

After waiting for 32 years, Shamrock Rovers had to wait an extra half hour and a penalty shoot-out before finally reclaiming the FAI Cup.

Mark O’Connor had a major hand in the rise of Irish star Barry Keoghan,and hopes to work similar magic with the cast of unknowns in his new crime series Darklands, writes Esther McCarthy.

Lynne Kelleher Five years after preparing to consign him to the slaughterhouse due to his sexual orientation, the former owner of Benjy the gay bull has had an emotional reunion with the celebrity Charolais.

You are only minutes into a chat with Mayo midfielder Dayna Finn when you find yourself gripped by her tactical appreciation of how so many goals are created by this current Dublin senior football team.

Your editorial (Irish Examiner, August 7) dealing with the attendance of young Fine Gael members at a conservative youth conference is dangerously intolerant of opposing views, and dangerously incendiary by attempting to link the inherent evil of white supremacy and racism to mainstream conservatism.

Are you a Gaelic football fan who is interested in American politics, but doesn’t want to listen to a 90-minute New Yorker podcast in order to sound hip at the watercooler? Here’s a breakdown of the contenders as Super 8 teams (and Galway)...

The Joule Donegal International Rally ended in tragic circumstances early yesterday when Manus Kelly, who won the event for the last three years, lost his life after his Hyundai i20 R5 crashed and left the road on Stage 15, Fanad Head.

A competitor has been killed in a crash at the Donegal International Rally this afternoon.

The sister of a man who died while climbing Carrauntoohil in Co Kerry last weekend has paid tribute to the “hero” father of three.

Cork’s Oliver Plunkett Street is 850m metres long.

Laura encouraged people to ‘live the best life you possibly can’

Esther N McCarthy gets a front-row seat in tonight’s episode of ‘Ros na Rún’. She talks to some of its key players.

Now that elite pathway has been closed off, there are fears the women described by F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo as ‘fast girls’ will be condemned to the slow lane, writes Larry Ryan

They say that the ‘hair of the dog’ is the best cure for a hangover — but one distraught dog-lover also found it the best cure for loneliness.

Some 200,000 people care for loved-ones in Ireland. Among them is Jack Brennan, an 84-year-old who cares for his beloved wife, Bernie. She has Alzheimer’s disease and cannot even perform the most basic tasks.

Gerry Adams has said he understands how victims of IRA violence feel, as he prepares to step aside after 34 years as leader of Sinn Féin.

A farmer who has battled for days to save his €300,000 potato crop after the Donegal floods is hoping he has done enough to save his livelihood.

A farmer who has battled for days to save his €300,000 potato crop after the Donegal floods is hoping he has done enough to save his livelihood.

A Donegal woman has spoken of her relief after managing to flee from her home just seconds before it was engulfed by a mudslide.

Locals in a Cork village who recently attended a charity coffee morning for a woman who was going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could never have anticipated she would become ill and lose her life on the trip, her funeral Mass heard.

The family of Waterford man Thomas Power, who died of a heart attack in the back of an ambulance on his way to Cork University Hospital, will attend a meeting in Dáil Éireann.

LATEST:Health Minister Simon Harris has said that he is open to a further review on the issue of cath labs in the South East.

Calls for University Hospital Waterford’s (UHW) cath lab to operate 24/7 have re-emerged after a man died of a heart attack on his way to Cork in an ambulance.

The Algerians are coming back to a coastal village in Co Cork, but this time they’re far more friendly than their ancestors, who were involved in an infamous visit.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and the leader of the party in the North, Michelle O'Neill, have helped to carry the coffin of Northern Ireland former deputy first minister Martin McGuinness to his home in Derry.

Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald has admitted her party is in “transition” as the prospect of a leadership change on both sides of the border grows nearer due to the likely retirement of Martin McGuinness from frontline politics.

A doctor on trial, charged with the manslaughter of her profoundly disabled daughter by giving her too much sedative, has denied that a suicide note she wrote afterwards was acknowledgment that she caused the girl’s death, saying: ‘I had lost my reason for living’.

The partner of a woman on trial, charged with the manslaughter of her profoundly disabled daughter, has given evidence of his horror at finding the 11-year-old cold in her bed and being unable to wake her mother.

The family of a 15-year-old boy who drowned in the River Shannon heard today how a lifebuoy which could have possibly saved their son's life had been removed by vandals.  

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Bernie Mullins, 29, works as a staff nurse in Mid-Western Regional Hospital Dooradoyle, Limerick, on an annual basic salary of €27,483.

A rape survivor has urged people who were attacked to come forward instead of staying silent, but admitted that living through the memory of what happened during the hospital examination was “like being raped again”.