Pre-tax profits at luxury chocolate maker Lir Chocolates increased by 171% to €1.33m in 2015.

Mary White gives the lowdown on the eight teams in the top division of the Lidl NFL...

Waterford hurler Patrick Curran has warned that U21 success is no guarantee of senior glory in the years ahead.

Philly McMahon isn’t interested in winning friends but he certainly influences people.

Country came to town last Sunday as a tourist town celebrated its new streetscape after months of upheaval due to resurfacing and drainage works.

The firm behind the €20m aviation pipeline to Dublin Airport has said there are a number of commercial issues with various stakeholders to be discussed before construction can start.

An incinerator in Cork Harbour would be similar to the notorious nuclear power-plant in The Simpsons, an oral hearing into the proposed application by Indaver Ireland in Ringaskiddy heard yesterday.

Aoife Lane has just completed a year as head of the Women’s Gaelic Players Association. Twelve months of lessons learned. How has it been?

A man who has brought smiles to the faces of countless sick and deserving children was given a standing ovation by more than 250 guests as he was pronounced Cork Person of the Year.

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They were selected as the nation’s sports team of the year, and exist on a Ladies Football plateau of their own making. But as this extract from Mary White’s new book ’Relentless’ shows, before there was serial All-Ireland success, there was a Rebel rebellion...

It was meant to be just a girls’ day out, so it came as a mighty shock when Laura Jayne Halton was declared the best dressed lady at the Dublin Horse Show in the RDS yesterday.

Twelve months on from Ireland’s historic win over New Zealand, what has changed for Irish women’s sport, asks Mary White.

On paper, the planned centre-left party has a good-looking lineout that’s far stronger than Lucinda Creighton’s Renua, writes Gerard Howlin.

An Irish ladies football star brutally attacked in America in 2012 is to return to New York tomorrow to read a victim impact statement.

A High Court judge has given a mother of four on social welfare another week before deciding if a bank should be allowed seize her €700,000 property.

The Fianna Fáil wipeout in the 2011 general election has given new female candidates the chance to fill the otherwise empty electoral landscape.

Limerick photographer Gerry Andrews tells Richard Fitzpatrick some of the stories behind his incredible pictures from the city’s Milk Market in the 1970s

Hard times can hit those turfed out of the Dáil but one former TD does not want sympathy when she’s spotted foraging for food.

FEW could have predicted that the latest entrant to the mortgage market could have grown up from the success of cereal crops in Wexford.

New figures from the State’s ethics watchdog reveal that €17,000 in political donations were declared by TDs, senators and MEPs for the whole of last year.

A mother of four on social welfare is appealing to the High Court an order for possession by a bank against her €700,000 family home.

Luxury chocolate maker, Lir Chocolates is on course to record a 47% jump in profits to €420,000 in its current financial year.

They're quick off the mark in Cork.

Amid angry scenes, senators have voted in favour of a referendum which could sweep away the Seanad.

A constant whinge from senators is that the Seanad has wonderful and insightful debates that are never reported by the media, and thus the public never get to learn how brilliant and necessary the Seanad is for democracy.

Fine Gael is expected to lose up to three senators today when the House votes on an amendment objecting to the principle of legislation allowing abortion in limited circumstances.

Senators hit out at Fine Gael’s campaign to abolish the Seanad amid promises that savings from closing the Upper House could go to fund services for those with special needs.

Carers yesterday pleaded with the Government to have a change of heart over cutting essential supports that enable them to care for their loved ones.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said he personally supports proposed legislation allowing abortion in limited circumstances, which he said is “consistent with the pro-life position”.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin is facing a major challenge to avoid losing some of his frontbench spokesmen over the party’s position on abortion.

Dan Boyle’s new book is the first insider account of the Fianna Fáil-Green government and the economic and banking disasters that struck on its watch. Today, in the second and final extract from the book, he outlines the central role which he and social media site Twitter played in the 2010 resignation of Fianna Fáil defence minister Willie O’Dea

WORD from the rarified surrounds of Seanad Éireann, the crèche that cares for the oldest and boldest children in the country, that the rations are low and the natives are restless.

The Fianna Fáil senator who abstained on a vote to move to expel Bertie Ahern from the party has said she will not vote on the actual motion next week and that people are jumping on the bandwagon over the findings of the Mahon Report.