The desire to win the Joule Donegal International Rally is the ambition of most drivers and even an obsession for some.

An application by the State’s corporate watchdog to examine material on computers taken from the suicide counselling charity Console has been further adjourned at the High Court.

The government has demanded former Console bosses repay €150,000 in grants given to the charity.

The first day of the Joule Donegal International Rally in Letterkenny was a battle of the Kellys — Frosses driver Donagh Kelly and Letterkenny’s Manus Kelly — while Fermanagh’s Garry Jennings remains very much in touch.

O’Grady’s Irish bar rests on the High Road in Seven Kings near Dagenham.

Of all the signs and banners that have shot up along the Kildysart Road to celebrate the magical adventure of the local hurling team, the one by the Kellys’ front gate probably best encapsulates the boldness and historical nature of it.

A north Co Galway town is in shock following the tragic death of a mother and her teenage son in a car accident.

The High Court has continued orders freezing the assets of the Console charity for a further week.

Revenue officials are to begin an emergency examination of suicide prevention charity Console’s accounts within days, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Officials have been poring over files and documents placed in a secret storage unit by the former Console chief executive Paul Kelly after a court order allowed David Hall, interim CEO at the charity, to break the lock and seize them.

Serious questions have arisen around transactions between the suicide bereavement charity Console and its UK-based sister organisation as more properties and bank accounts have come to light, the High Court has heard.

At the time of writing we are enjoying a bit of a heatwave but spare a thought for French winemakers who have once again been hit by late frosts and hail.

Ford was once a pillar of employment in Cork but their plant in Dagenham was also huge employer for generations of Irish in England. With our economic relationship facing the threat of Brexit, Robert Mulhern spoke to retired workers about an industrial link that uprooted Irish villages and planted them in what was then Europe’s biggest factory

Some homeowners on the country’s most exclusive road are trying to block plans by one of their neighbours to carry out a house makeover that includes an underground cinema.

A crucial weekend in the Munster junior league is in store as title contenders Clonmel and Newcastle West square off.

When he was putting in top-class performances on a regular basis for Aston Villa and Ireland, Paul McGrath’s inability to train tended to attract wide-eyed wonder.

Before Kerry faced Galway in Croke Park, their coach was scraped up, stretched out, then eased across the back seat of a car.

WINE enthusiasts sometimes tie themselves into knots worrying about the complexities to be found in the drink, fussing about which flower or fruit a wine smells like, or worse still focusing on soil structure and hectolitres per hectare.

Theatre: Where in the World is Frank Sparrow?

A 72-year-old woman has lost her civil action in a land dispute involving a Government minister and his father.

A junior government minister and his father have been accused of a “thou shalt not pass” approach in a land dispute involving a an elderly neighbour.

A government minister has recalled how an neighbour installed a camera directly facing his home at a time when it was publicly known he was receiving death threats.

Bullets bounced off Ned Kelly “like hail” as the Australian outlaw made his last stand, according to an eyewitness account that has surfaced more than 130 years after his capture.

Last Saturday afternoon, I had occasion to go into a pub in the afternoon with somebody, and that person summed up my feelings in one sentence when the blare from the televisions hit us.

Evidence has finished in the trial of a garda accused of harassment and insurance fraud.

Author of The Field, John B Keane, would have travelled to Co Donegal to hear the case of a family split by a contested will over a family farm, a court heard yesterday.

A couple evicted from their home a year ago have won an appeal against a court order appointing a receiver over rents from five apartments they own.

A couple whose eviction from their Killiney home last year went viral on YouTube have brought an appeal against a court order appointing a receiver over rents from five apartments they own.

Multimillionaire landlords Brendan and Asta Kelly, who were evicted from their Killiney home last April, have “gone to ground,” a judge was told yesterday.

The wedding planner’s TV slot is about making the mundane memorable, says Ailin Quinlan

Angela Betzien’s latest offering is a coming-of-age tale that draws on mythology and aspects of the history of Cork, says Colette Sheridan

The High Court has today ruled to strike out part of a legal action by an elderly couple who are suing IBRC following their eviction from their south Co Dublin home.

In the third of a five-part series, Conor Kane discovers a litany of job losses, factory closures and empty premises

A couple who hit national headlines over their eviction from a luxury mansion in south Dublin over a week ago are continuing to camp outside their former home.

The Government has “no pledge to keep people in 21 different homes and we must distinguish between people who can’t pay and those who won’t pay”.

As a Dublin couple with an extensive property portfolio evicted from their upmarket home continue their protest, Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said the Government has “ no pledge to keep people in 21 different homes and we must distinguish between people who can’t pay and those who won’t pay”.

Finance Minister Michael Nooan has said that the Government has pledged to keep people in their homes, but not in ''21 different homes''.

THERE is a sense of ivory tower delusion around the extraordinary story of a well-heeled Killiney couple who have vowed to fight a repossession order which put them out of their plush five-bedroom home.

An elderly couple evicted from a luxury mansion in south Dublin have spent a second night in a tent outside their former home.

Reaction to the plight of Brendan and Asta Kelly has been mixed — just like the fortunes of the elderly couple.

An elderly couple who were yesterday evicted from their Dublin home say Anglo Irish Bank refused to hold talks with them in the days before the repossession.

The annual Inch point-to-point took place at its traditional Ballyanthony venue yesterday and, on a wind-swept afternoon that witnessed nine races, the Colin Bowe-trained Clondaw Knight (4/6) impressed by winning the first division of the four-year-old geldings’ maiden.

In its 200 years, East Grove, on Cork’s Great Island, has had owners of many nationalities including the Glucksmans, says Tommy Barker

A WOMAN who claims one of her sons was shot by his girlfriend’s father, agreed in court that her three sons had a history of criminal violence.