Longford put in a solid display as they started their Division 3 campaign with a three-point win over Louth at Glennon Brothers Pearse Park.

Your guide to auctions and events around the country over the next week.

An international institutional investor and property developer with billions of euros in assets globally has acquired Cork city centre's Half Moon Street development, home to 700 Apple employees, for about 10% over its €34 million price guide.

From a €48k doll's house to chandeliers and Hollywood legends, we have all the latest from the world of art and antiques.

Des O’Sullivan previews two sales in Co Cork featuring everything from fine furniture to modern Irish art.

The Regional Internet Service Providers Association (RISPA) claims it could deliver an alternative to the National Broadband Plan for just over €400m.

Ciaran Archer was Dublin’s main target man as they demolished Longford in Glennon Brothers Pearse Park to advance to the Leinster U20 Football Championship semi-final.

Fáilte Ireland plans to invest €150 million in developing major new visitor attractions of scale across the country.

A man arrested over fires at three black churches in Louisiana is the son of a sheriff's deputy.

O’Callaghan Properties have placed a Cork city centre development on the market today with a guide price of €34m.

Cork City's curvaceous Half Moon Street development, anchored by Boots chemist at its lower level as its main flagship pharmacy in Cork, and occupied overhead by offices for Apple Europe, is for sale as an investment, with a guide price of €34 million.

A last-second Hannah Matthews strike saw Cork Harlequins leave Grange Road with their hearts broken, and helped move Loreto back to the top of the women’s EY Hockey League.

Cliodhna Sargent’s penalty corner strike powered Cork Harlequins into the Irish Senior Cup semi-finals as they snatched a late 2-1 win over Muckross.

Having been there, done that, Sonia O’Sullivan and David Matthews know all about the path — and indeed pitfalls — between underage and senior success.

It’s clear from information sources ranging from the agri-taxation review to the CAP reform proposals that farmers are going to face significant external pressures from the EU, from our own government, and perhaps from consumers demanding sustainability, as Ireland struggles in meeting climate change targets.

A garda was hospitalised following an assault outside Cork District Court, when he was allegedly punched and head-butted by a man just released on bail on a charge of carrying a knife.

Elderly people are not being properly assessed before hospital discharge and frequently end up in nursing homes that cannot meet their needs, and where patient mix is inappropriate, a conference has heard.

Nurses and midwives who are subject to fitness-to-practise hearings are suffering stress, anxiety, and in extreme cases suicidal ideation and are in need of support, a union has warned.

The ageing profile right across the European workforce is a general phenomenon rather than a particular problem in agriculture, according to the latest analysis by CAP expert Alan Matthews.

Model and social media influencer Vogue Williams is to marry her boyfriend of one year, reality star Spencer Matthews.

The girl's father followed her to her room where he took two cans back and “kicked her in the face causing her nose and mouth to bleed”, the court heard.

When Des Cahill called on potential benefactors to “#coughup”, circling the Green Army’s “actively seeking sponsorship” biography line, it gave the sport one of its rare moments in the spotlight.

Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell has paid tribute to former co-star Liz Dawn, describing her as the “matriarch” of the soap.

Latest: White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has been fired after less than 10 days in the post.

Des O’Sullivan previews an eclectic on-the-premises auction.

Dan Martin’s hopes of a podium finish at the Tour de France were thrown off course yesterday when crosswinds decimated the field and he was one of the big losers on the 165-kilometre stage 16 from Le Puy-en-Velay to Romans sur Isere.

Dan Martin narrowly missed out on victory in stage 3 of the Tour de France this afternoon.

An acid attack on an aspiring model and her cousin is now being treated as a hate crime.

South African caddie Gary Matthews has criticised women’s world number one Lydia Ko after being fired by the New Zealander’s camp after only nine events.

Women’s hockey international: Germany 3 ( Keibel, Huse, Schroder) - Ireland 1 (Russell)

A man has gone on trial charged with kidnapping a post office worker, his partner, and their baby before robbing over €600,000 from the man’s workplace.

man goes on trial charged with kidnapping post office worker and famiy

Two Hatton Garden raiders posed as workmen to break into a high-end London jewellers in a burglary bearing striking similarities to the daring multi-million pound heist five years later, a court has heard.

A pub chef who beat his girlfriend to death because he was paranoid she was cheating on him has been jailed for life by a British court.

As the US and Britain consider pushing up barriers to trade, smaller players like Ireland will need to use their brains as never before, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

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As the EU moves to pay dairy farmers to produce less, Irish CAP expert Alan Matthews said the measure could raise EU dairy farm incomes in the last quarter of the year by as much as €289m.

The Duchess of Cambridge’s younger sister Pippa Middleton and hedge fund manager James Matthews have announced their engagement, setting the stage for a celebrated society wedding in the coming year.

EU agriculture expert Alan Matthews predicts that tariffs will be temporarily re-imposed on trade between the UK and the EU for the first time in more than 40 years, when the Brexit process is completed.

A deaf victim of DoneDeal fraudster Patrick Matthews has been left “very hurt and angry” by his former flatmate’s deception.