She’s come a long way since her Cork Opera House debut, aged 11, as Little Red Riding Hood. Next week, the actress tells Marjorie Brennan, she returns to the same stage in Angela’s Ashes.

He decided to take early retirement five years ago following 38 years as Ireland’s most prolific newsman. But Charlie Bird has not taken up any new hobby, or — perish the thought — golf.

Euro 2016 was a melting pot of mediocre football and banter.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan will be joined by one-time US presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders strategist Tadd Devine on a heavy-hitting schedule for this year’s Kennedy Summer School.

We are the Boys in Green, the best you’ve ever seen

Charlie Bird was in Cork this evening to promote his new book, 'A Day in May: Real Lives, True Stories'.

Des O’Driscoll looks at five things to do in the world of arts and culture this week.

Charlie Bird saw many remarkable things in his 40 years in RTÉ but nothing could have prepared him for meeting the people who live in a graveyard.

He said that he picked the infamous sum Anglo needed on guarantee night “out of me arse”, later leaving for the US and telling a reporter who tracked him down to “have a bit of respect”.

The banking inquiry is to decide on Monday whether to allow former Anglo chief executive David Drumm to give evidence from the US by video link next Wednesday to get around legal issues with his return to Ireland.

The Derek Davis remembered at his funeral service in Dublin was a big man in so many other ways than the obvious.

Former Fianna Fáil TD Pat Carey, who last month revealed at the age of 67 that he is gay, has urged committed Catholics to support the marriage equality referendum as they have been “the torch-bearers for human rights on other issues”.