The Festival has a long and storied history of producing compelling duels and, with the 2020 renewal rich in promise, Darren Norris picks six battles not to miss.

Pat Kelly’s charge is enigmatic but, just like his media-shy trainer, utterly fascinating, writes Pat Keane.

Food and farming bodies have defended their role in climate action and warned it is simplistic to talk of slashing herd numbers or swapping pasture for tillage.

The Government may have to pay up €150m for missing its greenhouse gas emissions target.

Al Boum Photo was given a hero’s welcome as the Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup winner paraded through the village of Leighlinbridge on Monday evening.

Forget about it. Erase it from your memory entirely. No need to ever mention it again. The monkey is off his back forever. After all the near-misses and the talk of the glaring omission from his CV, Willie Mullins has now won the Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup. Al Boum Photo and Paul Townend ensured so with an authoritative display in the feature on the final day of the 2019 Festival.

Catherina O’Sullivan, a psychiatric nurse, from Tralee, Co Kerry, says her daughter is “living proof” that the Eighth Amendment should be retained.

A former Cork city-centre hotel, with a 207-year pedigree on St Patrick’s St, is to be partly demolished and redeveloped for high-end shops use, possibly with an appeal to the likes of Zara.

I’M one of the small constituency disgusted at the John McNulty affair because the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, has insulted artists in using the IMMA as a spring-board to “better things” for a political protege.

The European Commission has just agreed new proposals to step up energy-saving efforts that is hoped will create two million jobs across Europe by 2050.

BONO has brushed aside his music career and drawn inspiration from a classic children’s tale in his latest work.

The Government has appointed five people to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art following a spate of recent resignations over the process for selecting a new director at the museum.