Garret Island is impenetrable under a canopy of trees growing at every conceivable angle.

Sterling yesterday extended its biggest decline since 2010 as Bank of England policy makers said that uncertainty over Britain’s future membership of the EU is weighing on the currency.

Brehon Capital Partners and Midwest Holding have agreed a deal to buy the four-star Killashee House Hotel in Kildare for €13m. 

Dozens of people attended a small hotel in Wicklow yesterday for what they were told may be the last signing-in session for a controversial and quasi-spiritual, property trust.

LAST week, a Time magazine cover got the world talking. The picture of model Jamie Lynne Grumet breast-feeding her son, Aram, caused outrage. Why? Because Aram is four years old, and he stood on a stool to feed. People considered the image off-putting, even unnatural.