The starting point for Michael West’s new play, in this joint production by Corn Exchange and the Abbey, is an alternative, though highly familiar, 1970s Ireland. You know, elections every few weeks, bad suits, wide ties, and a seedy nexus of politics and property development.

Ford Motor, founded 100 years before Tesla, is paying the price for a sudden role reversal: It’s now the one struggling to produce a new model on time, at scale and without losing money.

The newest member of the Seanad has promised to represent farmers who want a new vision for agriculture in Ireland that is in tune with the environment and biodiversity.

The Ford Motor Company has been dealt a blow by credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service, which has cut the carmaker’s credit rating to junk on doubts that a turnaround plan by chief executive Jim Hackett will generate earnings and cash quickly enough.

Ford will eliminate about 20% of its workforce in Europe and close six factories in a sweeping overhaul aimed at reviving the money-losing region as the company also moves to prepare for the future of electric and self-driving cars.

Sarsfields moved to within two points of RedFM HL Division 1 leaders Bride Rovers – with two games in hand – after a comprehensive victory at home to Douglas on Saturday night.

A woman whose husband died from a blood clot while he was in hospital recuperating from surgery has settled her High Court action.

It was a long time ago when I first visited Enniscrone. I was 13 and I played a links that Eddie Hackett designed in 1970. The course had been here since the 1930s but now holes slipped into the big dunes that divided the links from Killala Bay.

Waterford 2-13 Tipperary 3-9: Waterford produced a sensational comeback to beat Tipperary in the Munster Minor Hurling Championship at the Gaelic Grounds.

Tipperary 4-15 Cork 1-14: Tipperary blitzed Cork for a crucial first win of the Munster MHC round-robin which keeps alive their hopes of progressing.

Tipperary will meet Waterford next Wednesday in the second round Munster MFC play-off after this extra-time win over Limerick in Newcastle West last night.

Kevin Markham looks at the clubs celebrating anniversaries in 2018.

Stocks on Wall Street rose for the third day in a row today, led by banks, retailers and technology companies.

Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, Pat Gilroy must have felt the love from all over Ireland in the early months of 2012.

He is, quite simply, the most hyped horse since Golden Cygnet. It is just as well Gordon Elliott’s Samcro isn’t human, because, if he was, the weight of expectation might overwhelm him, writes Pat Keane.

Northern Ireland defender Corry Evans was forced to apologise last night for a foul-mouthed racist rant from his wife on Twitter over the Romanian referee’s controversial penalty award for Switzerland at Windsor Park on Thursday.

Before he lays out his plans for Ford Motor to Wall St analysts and investors, new chief executive Jim Hackett is going to share his vision for the carmaker with leaders of its workers’ union.

“I think I have gained three more daughters. What we were able to do for them was a gift we gratefully accepted.”

Former Ford Motor chief Mark Fields, who led the company as it lost almost $25bn (€22.3bn) in market value, could walk away with payouts worth about $57.5m.

Mr Hackett has worked in the travel industry for 30 years and learned the trade in Aer Lingus Holidays, Budget Travel and JWT.

Steve Hackett tells Ed Power why it’s unlikely he’ll be getting back with his ex-bandmates any time soon

Crucial services for hundreds of physically and intellectually disabled children and teenagers in the Mid-West have ground to a halt due to structural damage to a hydrotherapy pool in Limerick, the only one in the region.

England's former top referee Keith Hackett has criticised the decision to put Wythenshawe-based Anthony Taylor in charge of next Monday night's clash between Liverpool and Manchester United.

Just getting through the airport with all the family in tow can be difficult says Áilín Quinlan.

Thirty-five jobs will be lost and 18 shops closed after the directors of Hacketts bookmakers decided to place the business in liquidation.

Fermoy 0-7 Mayfield 0-7 (Cork IFC Final): The more it went on, the more you thought it had to be some sort of rope-a-dope tactic.

Former Tyrone footballer Owen Mulligan told Listowel District Court yesterday that he didn’t think the man who arrived at Listowel Garda Station in the early hours to take a blood or urine sample from him — where he was under arrest on suspicion of drink driving — was a doctor.

Jockey Jack Kennedy once again showed his burgeoning talent in best light when recording a near 60-1 double yesterday afternoon at Cork racecourse.

A man apprehended with CS spray, a stun gun and pepper spray at his home told gardaí he had the items to deal with heroin use in his neighbourhood.

Mayfield 2-9 Glanmire 2-5: Mayfield began their Cork County IFC odyssey this season with a four-point first-round victory in a local derby against Glanmire at Watergrasshill on Saturday night.

Referees chiefs are insistent match officials’ standards have never been so good despite stinging criticism from the former head of Professional Games Match Officials Ltd (PGMOL).

"I share the view of one former top referee that the current group of professional referees is the worst that we have seen."

A raider waved a stick around aggressively in a betting office in Cork City before prodding the woman working in the premises and getting away with almost €1,000 in cash.

All-Ireland MBHC final: Kerry 3-18 Meath 2-15

Team news for the Second Round of the Capital One Cup.

The prospect of a resolution in the Tipperary ladies football dispute appears increasingly remote after chairman Tommie Campbell asked players dropped by team manager John Leahy to apologise to the county board.

The newest bridge over the Liffey was officially unveiled today in honour of a forgotten hero of Ireland’s fight for independence.

Tipperary hurling hero John Leahy has created a massive storm by axing five leading players from the county’s ladies football panel.

Alison Hackett presents history in a new format in her book, The Visual Time Traveller: 500 years of History, Art and Science in 100 Unique Designs.