Cork County Council is to examine the possibility of providing a grant to help start-up businesses pay their rates.

The stars of yesteryear gathered to say farewell to John Egan, writes Michael Moynihan

“Your ghost will be a legend like the famous Sam Maguire,” John Egan Jr said in a poignant tribute to his father, John, before shouldering the tricolour-clad coffin out of the Church of the Real Presence in Curraheen, Bishopstown.

Newly released tapes of President John F Kennedy’s private meetings reveal him comment on what would become the day of his funeral.

THE wife of a prominent member of the Irish Amateur Boxing Association, who was shot dead early last Sunday morning, yesterday asked for prayers to be said for the family of the man who has been charged with his murder.

Pop star Justin Timberlake is being groomed to play Bruce Willis' son in Die Hard 4.0.

GRACE PATRICIA KELLY was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to John Brendan Kelly Sr and Margaret Majer; her Irish Catholic family were new but prominent figures in Philadelphia society.

Jackie Kennedy considered asking her husband’s brother Robert to bring up their young children following the American president’s assassination in 1963, it was claimed today.

Jackie Kennedy was so distraught following her husband’s assassination that she told a priest she wanted to commit suicide, according to a new book.