A community plans to honour a defiant former parish priest whose eviction from the parochial house in the late 1800s helped inspire the Land League movement in Cork.

Two giant sharks, which together weigh more than the entire Munster pack which started last weekend’s Pro12 final, have been caught off the Clare coast.

British Prime Minister Theresa May faces growing demands to give honest answers to British MPs in Parliament about a failed test of the Trident nuclear deterrent.

Swords Thunder 88 Templeogue 81: Griffith Swords Thunder produced champagne basketball to dethrone National cup champions Templeogue in a thrilling quarter final at the National Basketball Arena last night.

Irish TV Tralee Warriors take a six-point first-leg lead to the ALSAA in Dublin tomorrow when they face Griffith Swords Thunder in the Hula Hoops National Cup (7.30pm, ALSAA Dublin).

ONCE a year, fiddle players old and young cluster around the statue of Sliabh Luachra master Pádraig O’Keeffe in the Kerry village of Scartaglin.

Sinéad Callanan, a student of Castletroy College in Limerick, was a prizewinner in the all-island Decade of Centenaries schools essay competition for this study of Na Fianna Éireann

Another glance at the activities 100 years ago this week of key figures in the upcoming Rising, as recorded by authorities at the time, or recalled later by the participants.

The Irishman was a major figure in the Second Boer War, and one of the 16 men executed after the 1916 Rising, writes Donal Fallon

Irish director Lenny Abrahamson is set to follow up Room with a film about Emile Griffith, a boxer with an interesting life story

Check out our guide to the best of tonight's TV.

Athletes competing in next year’s summer Olympics in Brazil will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human faeces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.

PEL Waste Reduction Equipment in Co Mayo is aiming to crack the US market with its innovative Baby Jaws glass bottle crusher.

A gun said to have been carried by Arthur Griffith in the early days of the Civil War has been quietly rediscovered after being hidden in an attic for decades, it has been claimed.

A gun said to have been carried by Arthur Griffith in the early days of the Civil War has been rediscovered after being hidden in an attic for decades, it has been claimed.

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The architects of the Irish Free State will be remembered with a special ceremony at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin today.

Hey, we've all been there. Right?

As we celebrate Bloomsday it might be of interest that while researching a biography of Arthur Griffith recently I was intrigued to discover a 20-year long relationship between himself and James Joyce, running from 1901 to 1922. While this was in the main in intellectual form, there was a close personal aspect to it at the start, middle and end.

Hollywood stars Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas are ending their 18-year marriage.

Hollywood stars Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas are ending their 18-year marriage.

A school chair that could reduce back problems in children and help improve their concentration has earned a young furniture designer a major award.

Melanie Griffith is "proud" of her daughter for landing the lead role in the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' movie.

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Adult actresses confound expectations, but further investigation is merited, says Stephanie Pappas

As the latest victim of a high-profile sex abuse case prepares to meet the Taoiseach, the political establishment can no longer avoid discussing the need to reform the system for sentencing.

Homeland, which puts the battle against terrorism on American soil, was honoured as best drama series at the Emmys and earned trophies for stars Claire Danes and Damian Lewis.

Homeland, which puts the battle against terrorism on American soil, was honoured as best drama series at the Emmys and earned trophies for stars Claire Danes and Damian Lewis.

The great grandson of the founder of the Church of Scientology will urge Irish people to steer well clear of the controversial religious movement at a conference in Dublin today.

Two of Ireland’s best-known gay choirs are to sing off the same hymn sheet to help stave off a funding crisis facing the national civil marriage equality campaign.

Warwickshire secured a deserved win over their hosts in Saturday’s Lory Meagher Cup clash in Ballinamore.

A NEW YEAR and a new horizon loom large for Charleville’s junior hurlers.

Ninety years ago today, Michael Collins supposedly accepted the surrender of Dublin Castle, but Ryle Dwyer notes that this was really a sly piece of press manipulation

The Anglo-Irish Treaty was the subject of much debate, even among the Irish delegation, writes Ryle Dwyer

The Anglo-Irish Treaty was the subject of much debate, even among the Irish delegation, writes Ryle Dwyer

HOLLYWOOD heart-throb George Clooney is a Kilkenny man.

US President Barack Obama, author Oscar Wilde and British Chancellor George Osborne, are among a host of public figures whose Irish ancestry is revealed by an online database.

Melanie Griffith is to star in 'The Grief Tourist'.

THE owner of a Beverly Hills beauty salon has been arrested on charges of stealing credit card information from actresses Jennifer Aniston, Anne Hathaway and Liv Tyler and running up tens of thousands of fraudulent payments on their accounts.

IF you want to know about the lasting legacy of Mad magazine, the comic brand that’s laughing all the way to its 60th year, just look on the internet.