Floating the idea that you can live on Ireland’s waterways might not be as strange as it sounds. Rita de Brún meets some of our barge people

Another English-language college in Dublin could be on the brink of closure after it informed students it would not open for the next two weeks due to a “weak financial position”.

CAROLINA KLUFT has played down reports she is suffering from a knee injury ahead of what promises to be the best heptathlon competition in history.