The two salvaged anchors from the 1916 German gun-running ship, the Aud, will be ready for permanent public display within weeks.

Enda Kenny is attempting to make up lost ground in his bid to form a government, after launching negotiations several days after Micheál Martin opened talks with potential coalition partners.

The defeated Fine Gael candidate is looking to the future, and possibly an overseas aid role in Africa, after a gruelling general election campaign, he tells Juno McEnroe

The Catholic Church is set to make a “gesture” towards admitting pupils to its primary schools in Dublin based on location and regardless of their religious affiliation.

Make no mistake — despite having 15 candidates to choose from due to the merger of two former Kerry constituencies into one, three of the five seats on offer in this sprawling area are already effectively decided.

For more than 40 years she cared for a legendary Co Cork church.

Foreign travel costs for the office of the Minister for the Diaspora which was set up in July 2014, have amounted to almost €74,000, according to information released under the Freedom of Information Act.

The Government is launching a ‘Home to Work’ campaign in the run up to Christmas to try to encourage emigrants to return.

Ireland’s Diaspora minister has urged emigrants in Britain to speak out about the planned shutdown of RTÉ's longwave radio service.

More than two dozen family members of those who died and were injured in the Berkeley balcony collapse gathered at the site of the tragedy.

Plans are being put in place to repatriate the bodies of Irish students Olivia Burke, Eimear Walsh, Eoghan Culligan, Niccolai Schuster and Lorcan Miller who all died after a balcony collapsed in California.

Sponsored holidays for young third-generation Irish adults abroad will begin this year, in a bid to encourage members of the disaspora to settle here with their families.

Even with technologies such as Skype, Irish emigrants still crave for more news from home, a study has found.

Children of Irish heritage all over New York will benefit from major Irish Government funding for the Shannon Gaels, according to club chairman Sean Price.

Political figures from around the country have been remembering the Jackie-Healy Rae, after the Kerryman passed away.

Next week in New York the county board’s centenary celebrations will end on a high note with the launch of the extensively researched Fergus Hanna 100-year history of the GAA in New York, writes John Riordan.

Irish political giant Daniel O’Connell has been remembered as the Nelson Mandela of his day as the newest of London’s famous blue plaques was unveiled in his honour.

ARTS Minister Heather Humphreys is reputationally dead-on-arrival. Her demise is less about dastardly deeds than the damning belief she was led by the nose. That impression was confirmed by her near incoherence when questioned by the media and her refusal to answer questions since. There is nothing so debilitating for a minister as a fool’s pardon.

On the immediate appointment of the new Irish minister for the diaspora, I wrote to Jimmy Deenihan TD asking him what he would be doing with the recommendation of the Constitutional Convention on extending votes to Irish citizens abroad in future presidential elections?

Irish passport-holders residing aboard may have a vote to elect three members to the Senate.

Political representatives in north Kerry are dismayed by reports that the company behind the Shannon LNG project has pulled the plug.

THE unresolved issue of protecting a bird prey will land on the desk of the new Arts and Heritage Minister, Heather Humphreys.

Former arts, heritage, and Gaeltacht minister Jimmy Deenihan yesterday said he was naturally disappointed about being demoted in the recent Cabinet reshuffle by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

Relatives of those who fought in the 1916 Rising are meeting the Arts Minister Jimmy Deenihan this morning to ask why they have not been invited to a number of commemorative events.

Limerick City will achieve a climactic cultural high when its headline event of the year Royal de Luxe presents ‘The Giant’s Journey’ for three whole days and nights on September 5-7.

A €5m environmental project has been announced by Jimmy Deenihan, the arts, heritage, and gaeltacht minister, aimed at restoring an endangered mussel in South Kerry.

The annual general assembly of Aosdána this week, and the conduct of its affairs in private, should prompt a reforming response from the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan.

Arts and Heritage Minister Jimmy Deenihan has today insisted that there are no plans to sell off Ireland's national parks.

Ireland has still to achieve equality between men and women a century after the founding of the Cumann na mBan, President Michael D Higgins has said.

In their contribution, Minister Deenihan and Secretary of State Theresa Villiers MP pointed out (Irish Examiner, March 31) that the newly unveiled Cross of Sacrifice in Glasnevin Cemetery was “no better setting for a memorial to remember the tens of thousands of Irishmen who made the ultimate sacrifice during World Wars.”

It may have happened over 90 years ago, but the bitter legacy of the Civil War lives on in Kerry.

Martin O’ Neill has backed Roberto Martinez’ assertion that Seamus Coleman will not be leaving Everton, after reports suggested the Irish full-back could be bound for Old Trafford.

Catholic schools are not undermining literacy and numeracy to prioritise teaching religion, the head of their representative body has said.

A building that once housed the 18th century South Presentation Convent and School is to be transformed into a €10m visitor centre and “a sacred space for contemplation” in the heart of Cork City.

Ireland’s forestry service has branched out into the movie business, aiming to grow revenue by becoming the country’s biggest supplier of outdoor TV and film locations.

More than 2,500 turfcutters are to be allowed back on protected bogs after the controversial ban was lifted by the Government.

The controversial turf-cutting ban will be lifted on the country’s most heavily cut sites under new plans unveiled by the Government.

The Government have been partially blamed for causing the crisis at Limerick’s City of Culture due to a delay in funds going to projects and amid calls for the arts minister to intervene.

Fianna Fáil is accusing the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht of taking a "hands-off" approach to the resignations at Limerick City of Culture.

The Minister for Arts Jimmy Deenihan has promised greater local involvement in the Board of Limerick City of Culture.

Chairman of Limerick City of Culture Pat Cox has defied calls for him to quit after his former political adviser resigned as the organisation’s chief executive yesterday.