Stop, stop, stop. Halt the election campaign in its tracks. Climate change action: cease and desist. We have a far more pressing issue to hand, one which requires urgent action.

Before the US assassinated its most senior general, Iran had contended with protests at home and resentment for its presence in Iraq. Not anymore, writes Abbas Milani.

At precisely this time last year, I resisted temptation. On or about New Year’s Eve every year, I hazard a few guesses (for the delectation of readers) about what the coming year will bring.

The woman came here from Georgia 11 years ago on a false EU passport.

Damien Delaney's football journey has taken him from Cork to the Premier League and back to Cork again. And along the way, he's encountered remarkable characters and learned valuable lessons that shaped his professional career.

Kya deLongchamps reveals that Georgian colour scheming does not spell simply pale and uninteresting.

A bed believed to have belonged to Bonaparte’s wife is up for grabs in Thurles, writes Des O’Sullivan.

Things are changing dramatically on the global economic front, and it’s not just Brexit.

A leading researcher challenges the belief that all men have higher sex drives than women. Many feel under pressure to initiate intimacy and would prefer greater equality in bed, she tells Marjorie Brennan.

John Bull has always divided opinion. To our neighbours, he came to symbolise the best of British: A jovial, chubby, but solid and honest character of rural stock. For others (ie pretty much everyone else), this representation came to be viewed in very different terms. Just how different was apparent in a New York Times piece from 1861.

We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by.

Leopard print is back in style but should it remain a largely feminine print, or can men rock it too? Paul McLauchlan finds out

A somewhat unusual conservation project is about to begin in Cork - taking a peek under some fig leaves hiding the modesty of six 200-year-old sculptures of males.

Citizens across our vexed continent will be heartened by the impending marriage in Paris of two people known until now only to the immensely wealthy and the strewn remnants of Europe’s royal dynasties: Jean-Christophe Napoleon Bonaparte and Countess Olympia von und zu Arco-Zinnerberg.

Fear of the loss of transcendence hurts people most about the fire in Notre Dame cathedral, writes Victoria White

On the night of April 15, 2019, in Paris, the emotions were raw.

It’s true today only about 35% of the world drives on the left. But, says Robert Hume, once practically everyone kept to that side of the road

I am writing this in southwestern rural France, an hour before the start of ‘Le Crunch’, as the French call their annual rugby highlight against the elderberry-smelling English hamsters.

When it comes to evaluating campaigns, only one authority is really worth consulting.

Dublin 3-16 Kilkenny 1-24

A lock of hair from the legendary French general Napoleon Bonaparte can be bought for €200, writes Sarah Slater

Ongoing across the pond: the controversy over US footballers taking a knee during the national anthem as a protest against police brutality and racial inequality.

With 1,300 years of history, Ireland’s ‘Alcatraz’ has been named Europe’s No 1 tourist attraction, writes Sean O’Riordan

IT is an irony of our time that just as food has assumed five-star celebrity status in the world of entertainment, far too many people view the prospect of turning a slipper of bacon, and a head of Savoy cabbage, into a dinner much as the Spartans viewed the Persian armies advancing on the Pass of Thermopylae in 480BC.

Yeah, just stop the football for a fortnight. It’s not like we’re playing like kings or anything… An international break this early is all manner of wrong. You’re frustrated either way; good run interrupted, stew on a bad result for two weeks.

If you remove the vestige and emblems of the past, do you erase the memory of what they represented too? asks Clodagh Finn

IT IS not always possible for a prominent public figure to provide an Apologia pro Vita Sua — a defence of one’s life — in convivial surroundings and amidst the company of former colleagues, some of them well-wishers.

It’s the time of year when everything is blooming. Wild plants in flower dress every rural lane in gay profusion, plants we never see at other times of year.

French President Emmanuel Macron said it is "obvious and indispensable" to have exchanges with US President Donald Trump as the two leaders were set to try to find common ground on security, defence and other issues.

Angela Lansbury is just one of the notable previous owners of this intriguing home, writes Trish Dromey.

Fancy a pint? Sounds good, doesn’t it?

The stable door is being left open in terms of diplomacy for a North Cork town to get one of history’s most famous equines back home.

I’m not getting through this season mentally unscathed, by the looks of things.

THIS Friday, Europe’s leaders come together in Italy to mark the 60th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome, agreements that laid the foundations for today’s European Union. 

A British museum has said it will deal “sensitively” with calls to permanently repatriate the skeleton of Napoleon’s famous white horse to a Cork town.

The first shots in the ‘Battle for Marengo’ have just been fired.

A GROUP of county councillors is to ask the National Army Museum in London to repatriate — if that’s the right word — the skeleton of Napoleon’s charger Marengo.

It'll open your eyes to the hidden side of our capital.

As the video says, if you think you know Dublin - think again.

Kya deLongchamps investigates the history of ‘insufflating’ and describes the manners and paraphernalia attached to the taking of ground tobacco.