The TG4 Gradam Ceoil returns to Cork for a

It’s been seen live by over 25 million people across the planet and smashed box office records over two decades — now the banks of the Lee are set to pulse to the rhythm of global dance phenomenon Riverdance for the first time.

Sitting Fine Gael MEP Jim Higgins has been eliminated after the fourth count in the Midlands Northwest European election constituency.

Defeated Fine Gael MEP Jim Higgins predicted yesterday there would be a Cabinet reshuffle "sooner rather than later".

As fledgling candidate Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan took wing for Europe, veteran MEP Jim Higgins acknowledged he was poised to make his Euro exit.

The counting of votes is to resume at 9am in the Midlands Northwest constituency – where four European Parliament candidates will be elected.

Counting will resume in Cork and Castlebar this morning as efforts to elect four MEP's in Ireland South and Midlands North West continues.

Cannabis campaigner Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan is on his way from Dáil Éireann to Brussels by virtue of a sensational win in the Midlands North-West constituency.

Enda Kenny has conceded that it is unlikely Fine Gael MEP Jim Higgins will retain his seat in the European Parliament.

Organisers of the Live at the Marquee gigs in Cork city have announced that the Coronas, Pixies and Lana del Rey are among some of the acts who have sold out.

Ten heads of state or government and 100 ministers sharpened their political teeth in the European Parliament, giving them an advantage in EU politics, but it is a trend Ireland has not followed.

MEP Jim Higgins yesterday said he has brought what he considers "genuine" complaints from two garda whistleblowers to the attention of the Department of Justice and the new minister, Frances Fitzgerald.

There is cause for concern for Labour ahead of this Friday's local and European elections, with the publication of two new opinion polls.

Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill, delivers her weekly briefing on Euro affairs from the European Parliament.

A new opinion poll for the European elections suggests Fine Gael should take two of the four seats in the Ireland South constituency.

WHEN the planes went into the Twin Towers on 9/11, Brian Fagan realised it was time to hightail it out of Afghanistan.

IRELAND had some of the best performers in the European Parliament over the past term, punching above their weight and taking full advantage of the huge additional powers the MEPs have gained.

Glór Theatre, Ennis, Co Clare

A new opinion poll shows fights for several seats in the European elections.

A new opinion poll has shown Sinn Féin on course to make a major breakthrough in the European elections, winning its first ever seats in the Republic outside of Dublin.

The cost of paying with plastic will be limited under EU rules that should also see the cost of goods coming down, saving consumers millions, if not billions, of euro.

The Labour Party is predicted to lose all its three seats in the European Parliament in May’s elections, with Sinn Féin taking them, according to bookmakers Paddy Power.

Ireland’s “victory” of ensuring every country had its own commissioner could be scuppered in November when the new body is put together. Instead there could be super-commissioners, and not-so-super-commissioners clustered around them.

Air pollution at dangerous levels

The Government is asking the European Investment Bank to help build flood defences, following massive flooding and damage in recent storms.

Ireland tries to milk EU for all it’s worth

Lana Del Ray, Bob Dylan and Imelda May will join the Live at the Marquee series of concerts in Cork city this summer.

A family that was denied compensation from a shortlived Government scheme when a father of eight and his son died off Donegal was the kind of thing expected in a Third World country and not a member of the EU, the European Parliament was told yesterday.

Coalition parties have stuck with sitting MEPs to run in the looming Euro polls.

Handbags and airport shopping will be allowed on all flights free of charge from next year and compensation for cancelled and delayed flights will kick in after just three hours.

The European Parliament has voted to improve the way air passengers can receive monetary compensation and assistance following flight disruptions.

The “clocking” of cars is set to become a specific criminal offence under measures announced by Transport Minister Leo Varadkar last night.

Irish MEPs have requested funding from the EU Solidarity Fund to help repair damage caused by superstorm Christine.

That most beautiful of countries, Greece, is not always the easiest to understand. Some months before it took over the EU presidency, a website called eu2014.gr appeared.

Christine clean-up leaves €300m bill

The Government’s plan to provide humanitarian assistance to those whose homes have been damaged by the severe winter storms is repeating the mistakes of the past and is not fit for purpose, according to the Cork regional vice-president of St Vincent de Paul.

The complex package of reforms to the Common Agriculture Policy has been passed by the European Parliament and will guide how Ireland’s €11bn in payments will be spent over the next seven years.

Irish dairy farmers are facing fines of more than €6m because of over-production this year.

GM maize battle about to grow wings

A group of eight farmers whose EU payments were cut off by the Department of Agriculture without any notice or reason took their case to the European Parliament.

Labour will struggle to avoid wipe-out in next year’s European elections after revised constituency boundaries add geographical difficulties to their low opinion poll ratings.

No betting on footballers getting yellow cards, a facility for gambling addicts to lock themselves out of websites, and a limit to the amount anyone can spend are all included in the latest effort to bring gambling under control in Europe.