Iceland 1 Portugal 1: It was meant to be all about Cristiano Ronaldo in St Etienne but a man nicknamed Thor stole his thunder as Iceland held Portugal to a 1-1 draw in Group F.

Peter O’Dwyer visits Iceland eight years after the global financial system crashed. Despite taking a very different path to Ireland, the scars of the catastrophe are still all too evident there as they are here

On 12th of this month we saw cattle standing knee-high in the river cooling off.

A MYSTERIOUS noise is heard occasionally in the southern oceans and off the coast of Australia.

1. Latte Lisa

WHAT WORDS come to mind when you think of Iceland?

You meet someone, there’s chemistry, and then come the introductory questions: What’s your name? Come here often? Are you my cousin?

FISHERMEN abandoning vessels to become fund managers; teachers becoming bond traders; everyone driving new BMW SUVs or sexy sports cars, and the country throbbing to the strains of one big all-night party.

LAST month saw the Cheltenham Festival, the election of the first non-European pope in nearly 1,300 years and the continuing saga of horseflesh sold as beef.

Our deficit is 15bn per year, every cent of which must be borrowed.

ON Feb 18, five sperm whales were seen feeding off the northwest coast of Scotland.

Printed pornography is already banned in Iceland, but there is scepticism over new plans to ban online porn, writes Dan Buckley

It’s probably not a concept that the present Government, banks and lawmakers want to think about, but the fact is that Iceland’s economy has grown by leaps and bounds since the government there implemented widespread debt forgiveness for many of its citizens.

The tiny Nordic European island country of Iceland is presently experiencing one of the greatest economic comebacks of all time.

THE visit to the Dublin coast of an exotic creature from the Arctic ended in tragedy recently.

Utter frustration was all Bohemians had to show for their effort at Dalymount as they failed to breakdown their dogged Icelandic visitors.

Having knocked them out at the same stage last year, it’s somewhat a case of the devil they know for St Patrick’s Athletic when they face ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar at Richmond Park tonight in the UEFA Europa League, first qualifying round, first leg.

An Icelandic court found a former prime minister guilty of one charge related to the collapse of the country’s banks in 2008, but exonerated him on three other charges and decided not to punish him.

A former prime minister of Iceland has rejected charges that he failed to adequately protect his country’s economy from financial shocks, as he took the stand in the first criminal trial of a world leader to result from the 2008 financial crisis.

Iceland’s former prime minister has rejected charges he failed to protect his country’s economy from financial shocks as the first world leader to go on criminal trial over the 2008 financial crisis.

Iceland’s former prime minister, the first world leader charged over the 2008 financial crisis that left nations on the edge of fiscal disaster, goes on trial today.

Experts are warning that an eruption could be imminent at an even more powerful Icelandic volcano than the one that paralysed air traffic last year.

Angry Icelanders have pelted MPs with eggs during a protest at the opening of the new parliamentary session.

ICELAND’S president accused European countries yesterday of having bullied it into agreeing to guarantee repayment of the debts of a failed bank, reviving a dispute with Britain and the Netherlands, whose citizens are owed billions.

It seems the decision by Icelandic voters not to pay billions of euro in compensation to Britain and the Netherlands may end up in the courts.

The Government is set to resort to legal action to recoup billions of pounds paid out to cover the deposits of British savers in collapsed Icelandic banks, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury signalled today.

Voters in Iceland have rejected a government-approved deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands $5bn for their citizens’ deposits in the failed online bank Icesave.

Icelanders are voting on whether to approve a deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands for their citizens’ deposits in the failed online bank Icesave, with the result too close to call.

Icelandic President Olafur Grimsson has said he would put a new deal aimed at solving a dispute with Britain and The Netherlands over a £3bn (€3.56bn) repayment to a public vote.

REMEMBER the joke, what’s the difference between Ireland and Iceland?

IT takes a hell of a spectacle to put Lady Gaga in the shade but the eccentric pop star was no match for French bravura this week.

About 2,000 protesters gathered in the Icelandic capital to protest at the opening of parliament today, police said.

Britain and Iceland have resumed talks aimed at settling a £2.3bn (€2.78bn) dispute over the collapsed Icesave bank, it was disclosed tonight.

POOR old Iceland is in the dog-house.

WHEN the Icelanders were building their banking bubble they took deposits from savers and speculators all across Europe but especially from England and Germany.

It looked like the revenge of the downtrodden.

Voters in Iceland have resoundingly rejected a €3.9bn plan to pay back Britain and the Netherlands for debts caused by the collapse of an Icelandic Internet bank.

Defiant Icelandic voters have resoundingly rejected a €3.9bn plan to pay off Britain and the Netherlands for debts spawned by the collapse of internet bank Icesave, according to initial results today.

Angry Icelanders went out to vote today determined to give the government a bloody nose over plans to use €4bn of taxpayers' money to pay Britain and The Netherlands for lost deposits when a major bank collapsed.

Iceland’s government is facing a massive public backlash against the use of taxpayers’ money to pay back Britain following the collapse of the country’s banks.

ICELAND’S application for membership of the EU has been given the thumbs up by the European Commission.

The Icelandic parliament decided after an emergency session how to stage a national referendum on repaying almost €4bn to Britain and the Netherlands over the collapse of the Icesave bank – a poll that is seen as a defining moment in the bankrupted country’s economic recovery.