There will be no ‘show time’ on Budget Day, Taoiseach Enda Kenny told a dinner gathering of business folk.

As John B Keane’s classic tragedy Sive returns to the Abbey stage, his family hope that two of his unseen plays will also be produced, writes Pádraic Killeen

British Airways has confirmed Shannon Airport as its preferred option as a diversionary airport if the Airbus A380 ‘Superjumbo’ needs to make an unscheduled landing.

The Supreme Court judgment of the appeal concerning the role of the Labour Court, and the constitutional and legislative integrity of Joint Industrial Council agreements, highlighted the authority of article 15.2.1 of the Constitution.

Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow are moving to Los Angeles.

JOHN B KEANE lived a double life.

A new book exposes how, after a promising start, corruption became endemic in Irish political life, writes Colette Browne

A 51-year-old man will appear in court in Britain today charged with attempted murder after a four-year-old boy was found stabbed in a street.

Ernest Blythe was the Fine Gael (or Cumann na nGael) Minister for Finance in 1923.

LIONS attacked and killed a tourist while he was showering at an unfenced campsite in a nature reserve, and such fatal encounters are on the rise because of poaching, a conservationist said yesterday.

Dan Brown’s evidence denying he had copied parts of his blockbuster novel, The Da Vinci Code, should be viewed with “deep suspicion”, a High Court judge was told today.

An accusation that millionaire author Dan Brown stole the ideas for his blockbuster The Da Vinci Code was a “travesty”, a High Court judge heard today.

THE judge hearing The Da Vinci Code “copying” case challenged its author yesterday over when he read the book whose authors are claiming he lifted their ideas.

DAN BROWN, one of the highest paid authors in history, said yesterday accusations that he had stolen the ideas for his blockbuster, The Da Vinci Code, were "completely fanciful".

THE re-partition plan presented to Ted Heath in July 1972 attracted more attention than any of the other documents released this week.