TV chef Rachel Allen is to close her first restaurant for a €1m casual dining reinvention. Rachel’s, on Cork’s Washington St, which opened in March 2017, will close on August 8 for the eight-week revamp.

Rachel Allen’s TV shows were filmed in this extensive home next to a beautiful beach and nature reserve in East Cork. Tommy Barker steps into a real dream home.

Dublin may have had 30,000 runners pounding its streets in the women’s mini marathon but all attention went Lee-side.

There were cheers, gasps, droid photo opportunities, casino games and more than a few standing ovations at the jam-packed world premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi in Los Angeles, which many are already praising online.

Family and friends of five of those killed in the Grenfell Tower fire, including two child victims, have gathered to remember their loved ones.

Ariana Grande has visited young fans injured in the Manchester terror attack in hospital.

He may hail from a famous foodie dynasty, but Lucca Allen prefers the high octane world of motorsport to the heat of the kitchen.

A ninth birthday present of a go-kart has propelled Shanagarry’s Lucca Allen towards his ultimate dream – competing in Formula 1. 

Like any good army, the Irish economy is marching back to full-bellied recovery on its stomach with up to a half-dozen new restaurants flooding into one section of Cork city alone. 

The ongoing building of illegal settlements is just one feature of a brutal occupation that foments Palestinian resentment, writes Political Correspondent Juno McEnroe

Des O’Sullivan looks at rare Limerick silver about to go on the market.

While Simon Delaney enjoyed his role in big budget horror, The Conjuring 2, he’s still very much focused on his four kids, writes Esther McCarthy

A family in England is celebrating the arrival of twins - who were born two years apart.

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A look into the Irish male psyche.

The increasingly violent assaults by Israeli Arabs on Israeli Jews has been portrayed in the global media as a consequence of Muslim fears that Israel plans to sieze Al-Haram al-Sharif (more commonly known as Temple Mount or the Dome of the Rock) the third holiest site of Islamic pilgramidge.

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The Binding of Isaac is a really, really, really weird game. And now there’s more of it.

Ian Madigan has spent the last year working behind the scenes to prepare to cover scrum-half for Ireland at the Rugby World Cup.

EGYPT: Egyptians in a Nile Delta province were left outraged after a cleric allegedly changed a line in the traditional Islamic call to prayer to mention Facebook.

Drawing on 40,000 years of his tribe, Frank Yamma has had a storied career, writes Áilín Quinlan

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Oscar Isaac will appear in Star Wars VII and took the opportunity to get some advice from Han Solo himself, Harrison Ford.

All Our Names

Ex Machina ****

A young programmer becomes part of an experiment to test if an android AI possesses consciousness.

After breaking through with The Beach, Alex Garland has swapped the pen for the director’s chair on Ex Machina, writes Ed Power

Long after the last of the marchers left, people came, silent as mourners, to relight the candles flickering on the pedestal of liberty on the Place de la République.

Brendan O'Carroll wonders what children with his wife Jennifer Gibney would have been like - the couple never give birth to children together.

The Christmas spirit is alive and well in Cork city, where an 11-year-old boy from Fermoy spent most of his Christmas budget to buy gifts for a homeless woman's children.

The Christmas spirit is alive and well in Cork city, where an 11-year-old boy from Fermoy spent most of his Christmas budget to buy gifts for a homeless woman’s children.

The mother of a man who died after playing the online drinking game NekNominate wept as she said he would still be alive if he had not taken part in the craze.

The mother of a UK man who died after taking part in the NekNominate online drinking craze wept today as she told his inquest that he would still be alive if it were not for the game.

Are you watching, Bernie Ecclestone?

Want to hold a snail race in the back garden? No, it’s not an Alice in Wonderland fantasy, but a real possibility. Draw two chalk circles, one within the other.

What, when you know he has a terminal illness, do you tell your eight-year-old son when he asks if he is going to die?