Irish golf clubs have had plenty to celebrate in 2019.

George Clooney directs and stars in a new TV take on Catch-22, writes Gemma Dunn

A ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new year has sunk in the Tigris river near the Iraqi city of Mosul, killing at least 45 people, an official said.

An independent review into the murder of one Irish soldier and the disappearance of another in south Lebanon in 1981 has identified a series of failings and shortcomings in the Defence Forces operation.

Our man inside the game has seen plenty of midweek trips to the sun backfire.

A right-wing extremist suspected in the shooting rampage that wounded six Africans in central Italy was "lucid and determined, aware of what he had done" and exhibited no remorse for his actions, an official said.

A British Army advertising campaign promoting the emotional support available to recruits has been criticised for failing to target those most interested in joining the forces.

The leader of a company of more than 150 Irish UN peacekeepers who held out with few arms against 3,000 highly-trained mercenaries in the heat of the Congo has been honoured.

The Government has rejected calls for a UK reparations fund for victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA attacks.

About 18,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled fresh violence in Burma and crossed into Bangladesh, with hundreds stranded in no man's land at the border, according to the International Organisation for Migration.

Interpol has issued an international request for the arrest of the billionaire heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune who is wanted for allegedly killing a traffic policeman in a 2012 hit-and-run incident in Bangkok.

Islamic State militants are "completely surrounded" and "being killed" in the Iraqi town of Tal Afar, the spokesman for the US-led coalition fighting the extremist group in Iraq said.

A man accused of ploughing his car into counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia is set to make his first court appearance.

A deal hammered out by Russia, Turkey and Iran to set up "de-escalation zones" in mostly opposition-held parts of Syria has gone into effect.

At least seven people have been killed by a massive car bomb blast at a restaurant in Somalia's capital.

One of the rarest pieces of Irish silver ever to come to market has sold at auction in England for £25,000 (€29,800).

Twin explosions from female suicide bombers suspected to be with Boko Haram have killed nine people and injured 24 in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri, officials and witnesses said.

Russia will destroy all of its chemical weapons by the end of next year - a year earlier than previously announced, officials say.

A man arrested over the murder of two nuns at their Mississippi home has confessed to the killings, a sheriff said.

Thais and tourists have headed warily into the main part of a big holiday weekend as authorities hunted for suspects and a motive behind a series of blasts that struck resort towns across the south in some of the worst violence since a military coup two years ago.

A second girl believed to be among those kidnapped by Islamic extremists from a school in Nigeria has been rescued, the military said.

Des O’Sullivan investigates lots at an upcoming history sale in Dublin focusing on ‘The Year of The French’.

Cork City’s St Patrick’s Day parade was colourful in more ways than one, with every race represented as hundreds of non-nationals mingled with locals to join the celebration.

A helicopter has been shot down in Libya, killing at least 14 of its 23 passengers.

Turkish jets shot down an unidentified drone that flew into Turkey’s airspace at the border with Syria, an incident that comes as Syrian troops under Russian air cover are pressing their offensive against rebels in central and northern Syria.

On the 75th anniversary of the internment of German airmen in Ireland, Ryle Dwyer looks back at one of the strangest, most welcoming prison camps of the Second World War

On the 50th anniversary of the death of Piaras Beaslaí, Ryle Dwyer assesses how his biography of Michael Collins sparked a slew of rumours about the Big Fellow.

Spencer Butler and his friend were out for a stroll in South Dakota on Saturday, testing a new camera - when they came across an apartment on fire.

The US plans to store heavy military equipment in the Baltics and Eastern European nations to reassure allies made uneasy by Russian intervention in Ukraine, and to deter further aggression, a senior US official said on Saturday.

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An Air Corps officer has launched several High Court challenges aimed at preventing his court martial from going ahead.

BRITAIN: Saturday evening is the most dangerous time to be at home, with four accidents in the UK every second, a study has found.

Boko Haram militants have attacked a village inside Chad, their first deadly attack in the country, according to an army spokesman.

Foreign military aircraft regularly enter Irish-controlled airspace unannounced, it has been claimed as details emerged of an incursion by two Russian ‘Bear’ bombers which flew within 90km of the Irish coast while “testing” RAF responses.

The FBI is investigating after hackers claiming to work on behalf of Islamic State militants seized control of the Twitter and YouTube sites of the US military.

Search crews have recovered 30 bodies from the AirAsia plane crash, and an Indonesian navy official says five were found still strapped in their seats.