It’s quite a few miles from Saint Tropez and the Côte d’Azur but the tiny village of Quin in Co Clare is fast gaining a reputation as the celebrity holiday destination of 2014.

The Convention on the Constitution is recommending allowing Irish citizens abroad the right to vote in Presidential elections.

AN online poll of Irish people forced to emigrate in the economic crisis has heaped further humiliation on Fianna Fáil. The emigrants poll, it emerged, would have returned just two of the party’s TDs to the Dáil.

CANADA has introduced a string of visa rule changes to cater for a massive increase in Irish applications.

ONE of the largest collections of civil actions against the Roman Catholic church came to a close when the Archdiocese of Louisville agreed to pay $25.7 million to 243 people who accuse d priests and employees of child sexual abuse.