France intends to tax the revenue of about 30 internet giants, such as Amazon, to help ensure “fiscal justice,” according to the country’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.

Courtyard Liffey Celtics were crowned the Women’s Paudie O’Connor National Cup champions for the first time in the clubs history when they had a comfortable win over Singleton’s Supervalu Brunell at the National Basketball Arena today.

If the annual Marquee party wasn't already started, it certainly is now. Cork’s waterfront venue is still shaking to the disco beats of Nile Rogers and Chic.

A French appeals court has upheld the far-right National Front's decision to expel party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen over anti-Semitic remarks, a stinging defeat for him and a victory for his daughter and rival Marine.

The opportunities are dwindling to expose Ireland’s less experienced Test players and build strength in depth ahead of the next World Cup.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been charged with misusing European Parliament funds relating to the payment of parliamentary aides.

Irish Naval Vessel, LÉ Eithne, rescued 183 people from the Mediterranean yesterday morning.

The Naval Service made its first migrant rescue this year as the weather improved off the coast of Libya yesterday, prompting people-smugglers to push thousands of frightened refugees, corralled for weeks in holding compounds, into deathtrap vessels onto the Mediterranean Sea.

Greece is seeking to persuade its creditors in Europe that it has done enough to receive another chunk of bailout loans and a commitment on alleviating Athens' hefty debt burden.

Germany and France have pledged to help strengthen the eurozone, with the harmonisation of corporate taxes among the possible measures considered.

A top aide of French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has been handed preliminary charges in an investigation into money spent on her party's European Parliament assistants.

People-smugglers are overloading refugees in inflatable dinghies that are so poorly manufactured they’ve no hope of making their destination.

Italian authorities are expected to carry out a postmortem on the body of a man found on an inflatable boat carrying hundreds of migrants who were picked up by the Naval Service.

A 51-year-old man has been charged in England under modern slavery laws with keeping a person in servitude and arranging the travel of another person.

Two VIPs are back in their natural habitat thanks to the Naval Service who deposited them off the western coast of Gibraltar, on a patrol ship’s way to a migrant rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea.

Nemo Rangers (Cork) 0-14 Killarney Legion (Kerry) 0-8: WITH November’s gluepot ground conditions comes a downward gear change.

A US man looking to acquire ricin so he could sell “simple and easy death pills” and guarantee “risk-free” murder has been convicted of federal charges.

The Naval Service’s flagship LÉ Eithne is today steaming close to Gibraltar on her way to the Mediterranean, where she is being deployed to save migrants from drowning.

Ever wondered why your food never looks as good as the menu?

Ever wondered why your food never looks as good as the menu?

All the latest team news ahead of the first weekend of Premier League action.

Gardaí arrested four people and brought them to Cork District Court yesterday on various charges arising out of the seizure at the weekend of €600,000 worth of cannabis plants growing at an industrial unit in South Link business park.

Three men and a woman have been charged with drugs offences following the discovery by gardaí of a €600,000 cannabis growhouse in an industrial estate in Cork city at the weekend.

Robin van Persie was again absent from the Manchester United squad but Marouane Fellaini was selected to face former club Everton at Old Trafford.

At last the hype is over and the British and Irish Lions are back in business.

The Spaniard limped off with an ankle ligament problem during the scoreless draw at the Madejski Stadium and is in a race against time to be fit for Saturday’s trip to Fulham.

Moving European farm payments to a single flat rate model by 2019 is too radical and risks penalising more productive farmers, according to Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney and his newly-appointed French counterpart, Stéphane le Foll.

Leinster 2-19 Connacht 1-15

The European Tour title race looks set to go right to the wire after Rory McIlroy produced a fabulous nine-hole stretch today, just as Luke Donald was losing his way.

A MOTHER in Burma says her baby girl’s 12 fingers and 14 toes have been no disadvantage — and she’s now grasping for a Guinness World Record.

HE’S back — run for the hills! It’s like the end of ‘Carrie’ or the axe scene in The Shining; heeeeeeeere’s Gerard.

A Yale University lab technician was today charged with the murder of a graduate student whose body was found stuffed in a research building wall on what was to be her wedding day.

The killing of a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed inside a wall five days after she vanished was a targeted act, police have said, seeking to calm fears that a random killer is still at large.

Police launched a murder probe after finding the body of a missing graduate student from an elite US university in a college building where she had last been seen five days before.

SOMETIMES in this journalistic game you look back upon things you wrote years earlier and wonder how you could possibly have got it so wrong.

A man charged with smuggling songbirds into the United States by hiding them under his trousers pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles.

IT CAME as a surprise yesterday when Michael Cheika admitted there was a touch of nervousness in the Leinster squad when they gathered for training on Monday morning.

A private art collection including unseen paintings by Jack B Yeats and Louis le Brocquy will be auctioned this week.

IT MIGHT have been the final great story in a career littered with them, but Vincent O’Brien’s ability to train big race winners was never more evident than in New York in 1990 when he sent Royal Academy to the Breeders’ Cup meeting at Belmont and shocked the locals to the core by winning the $1 million prize.

A veil of secrecy was tonight drawn over the Irish buyer who paid a record price for a painting by one of the country’s greatest living artists.

Sole surviving Irishman, Pádraig Harrington, beat Argentina’s Angel Cabrera to reach the last 16 of the Accenture World Match Play Championship in California today.