The Department of the Taoiseach says a private briefing on the Strategic Communications Unit afforded to Paddy Cosgrave was granted at the request of the Web Summit founder.

St Brendan's College Killarney suffered their first defeat in the Corn Uí Mhuirí in three years this afternoon.

"The cocaine use may have diminished his intellectual powers and made him vulnerable."

Starship would be the Taoiseach’s “favourite” name for the new National Children’s Hospital.

Gardaí are still protecting Liam Cosgrave's home over a month after his death.

The home of former taoiseach Liam Cosgrave, who died more than five weeks ago, is still under Garda protection.

For someone who was far more comfortable waiting quietly in the background than standing in the glare of the spotlight, the past few days of wall-to-wall attention must feel unusual for those who knew Liam Cosgrave, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

Latest: He was a leader who put the nation first, a statesman who was never too busy to listen to others, a true patriot in a time of violence, and - ultimately - someone of genuine principle who has now been lost from our land

Liam Cosgrave was humble but played a key role in politics and will be remembered as doing the State exemplary service, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell.

Liam Cosgrave’s monumental legacy is that he put the nation’s security and the national interest before party considerations, writes Ryle Dwyer   

An officer and a gentleman is how Liam Cosgrave should be remembered.

Former Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Liam Cosgrave has died at the age of 97.

Former French president François Hollande and former US vice president Al Gore will speak at this year’s Web Summit, Europe’s largest tech event.

Leo Varadkar became Ireland’s 14th different head of government earlier this month. Here, Ryle Dwyer assesses the legacies left behind by the Taoiseach’s predecessors.

The head of Web Summit is not ruling out the possibility of hosting an event in Dublin in the future.

Enda Kenny is coming under increasing pressure to declare his intentions about his departure as he today becomes the longest-serving Fine Gael taoiseach.

People smuggling is complex and is often entered into as a “last resort” by those seeking asylum, according to immigrant and refugee advocacy groups.

St Brendan’s, Killarney 2-18 Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 0-9: A dominant second-half performance from St Brendan’s – in which the favourites outscored their opponents 2-10 to 0-2 – eased the Killarney outfit into the penultimate round of the Corn Uí Mhuirí.

Second-half surge proves too hot for Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne.

Forgotten Patriot is the story of Douglas Hyde, the first President of Ireland under the 1937 Constitution. He founded the Gaelic League in 1893 and was therefore responsible for the “cultural proselytising from which Irish sovereignty flowed,” according to Brian Murphy.

A two-minute video depicting Irish women’s journeys across the Irish Sea to access abortions received almost quarter of a million views in its first 24 hours online.

Surely the time has come to acknowledge what a substantial figure Enda Kenny is, and what a mark he has made on the Irish political landscape, says Fergus Finlay. He established a place in history last week as the first Fine Gael leader ever to have been re-elected to the office of Taoiseach.

A Limerick man wrote off a car when he attacked it with a hatchet, a court heard.

The co-founder of the Web Summit yesterday said the Government was continuing to use the tech event as a distraction from the real issues affecting people on a daily basis.

THE accusations levelled against Government by Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave are so serious that they cannot go unanswered.

While the debate rages over whether the Government dropped the ball in letting the Web Summit leave, or if the event’s founders were over-demanding in their requests, what is not in doubt is the embarrassment which elements of the correspondences released this week will cause the cabinet, writes Joe Leogue

The Government, Dublin City Council, the RDS, and the body representing the hotel industry have all responsed to claims outlined in correspondences between the Web Summit founder and the Taoiseach’s office.

THERE are always two sides to every story but correspondence released yesterday by Web Summit co-founder Paddy Cosgrave suggests that one side of the story around the decision to take the event out of Ireland may not be particularly impressive or inspiring. 

A 90-year-old woman has been hauled into court and left facing a hefty legal bill for having an “unauthorised” satellite dish on the front of her house.

Kehlan Kirwan looks at the loss of the Web Summit to Lisbon and while it may be a great move for the event, it exposes a harsh reality for the Irish tech and start-up scene

The Government couldn’t prevent the Web Summit choosing an alternative host city from next year despite funnelling over €700,000 of taxpayers’ money into the event over the past three years.

THE announcement that the Web Summit is no longer to be based in Dublin, instead moving to Lisbon next year, is very disappointing though hardly surprising.

The decision to relocate the Web Summit to Lisbon from next year onwards will cost the Irish economy tens of millions of euro and should act as a wake-up call to the need for improved infrastructure here, business bodies have warned.