Hollywood is set to give the quintessential Irish stereotype, the leprechaun, a dark makeover as a terrifying killer in a new horror movie.

We begged Disney not to make a movie about leprechauns, but Aer Lingus used them for ads. Do we like them or loathe them, asks Caomhán Keane.

Next Monday many of our politicians, at taxpayers’ expense, will leave Ireland and abandon their posts for junkets to America and other exotic places to celebrate Ireland’s national holiday, St Patrick’s Day, with the stranger and the foreigners, leaving at home the Irish people who elect them to sink or swim in poverty and recession.

Sometimes you have to pinch yourself, take a deep breath and listen carefully to be sure that you heard what you thought you heard.

Fewer than one third of homes in Ireland have paid the €100 Household Charge, as of midday today, as TDs campaigning against the charge have urged the public to revolt against it.

Huge opportunities are on the horizon for the Irish dairy industry, according to Glanbia group managing director John Moloney.

THE party finally began both on and off the Ryder Cup course at Valhalla yesterday.

SOMETIMES you’d wonder if we’d be better off if Darby O’Gill and the Little People were running the country.

THE Government’s attack on the hotel and bar trade is totally unacceptable and undemocratic.