If Galway progress in a business-like manner, it will augur well for more than a Leinster semi-final, writes PM O’Sullivan.

We can’t get enough of it, but, once upon a time, ice cream was only for the rich, learned Robert Hume when he looked into the history of the frozen treat

A leading business group has called for the “blunt instrument” minimum wage to be scrapped to help kick-start the economy, saying the legal pay level is stopping firms employing new staff.

It would be a delicious irony if the greatest opportunity given to the parties of the left in the history of this State achieved what generations of moderate, loosely Christian Democratic, Social Democratic politicians with more or less the same objectives failed to do. 

A spoiler-free guide to the tellybox tonight.

Green:The History of a Color

Kya deLongchamps offers an essential guide to showers, from an indulgent wet room to a traditional mixer or just an economical, easy way to rinse off the kids.

A man has been jailed for life for murdering a woman he had been "an item" with for three months.

John Keogh rightly condemns the excesses of practising Christians throughout the centuries but spoils it all by bemoaning the fact that ‘Nero didn’t throw enough of them to the lions’ (Letters, Jan 11).

Four African men are due to be sentenced today for a series of attacks in Dublin's Temple Bar that almost cost one man his life.

Humanists are often criticised for their lack of religious affiliation.

Four African men have pleaded guilty to a series of attacks in Temple Bar in Dublin.

JT Nero tells Gerry Quinn how his Birds Of Chicago project has caused quite a stir in the American roots music scene

The Aer Lingus pension dispute is but a foretaste of things to come.

When historians of the future dig beneath the rubble of 21st-century Italy, they are likely to view Silvio Berlusconi as the last Roman emperor.

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Agriculture Éamon Ó Cuív has hit the ground running since Micheál Martin brought him back into the party’s front bench in mid-July.

Vladimir Putin once compared ruling Russia to being a “galley slave”, but four yachts that come with the job, not to mention palaces, aircraft and a wealth of luxury perks help explain his refusal to quit the presidency, leading critics have said.

Cher Lloyd stormed off stage during her V Festival set yesterday after being struck with a bottle of urine.

I completely disagree with Emmet Murphy’s comments on Labour (or Imitation Left as I prefer to call them) being likened to Caesar.

We all remember Nero, the guy who played his fiddle as Rome burned.

Adele’s success looks set to continue as the singer-songwriter picked up a string of nominations for the Ivor Novello Awards.

For one of the best-educated countries in the world, it is more than surprising that we allow ourselves to be taken for a ride on a regular basis.

A LOT of shadow boxing goes on in the EU.

ARE the world’s financial institutions to be or not to be?

I AGREE with Liam Power (Letters, Dec 31) about the “welfare fraud bandwagon”.

Benicio Del Toro is in line to play a leading character in the 'Star Trek' sequel.

BY THE time you read this, America’s two big political parties may have done a deal on the economy.

Example wants to record tracks with Kasabian and Swedish House Mafia.

‘Star Trek 2’ will be “a bit more daring” than the 2009 instalment.

FOR the vast majority of families, the luxury of having breakfast just before 9am is just that — a luxury.

To fair Verona we go for a light and fluffy romance built around the world’s most famous love story, 'Romeo and Juliet', and the thousands of letters written by the lovelorn and left in the wall at the fictional Juliet’s home, with the fictional balcony.

A large chunk of the ceiling of Nero’s Golden Palace in Rome collapsed today.

ONE could only shake the old head in disbelief at the end of the Group 2 Futurity Stakes at Fairyhouse on Saturday. It had nothing to do with the fact hot-pot Cape Blanco obliged. That was as predictable as forecasting it will rain and rain throughout an Irish summer.

READING last week’s column (March 5) by the best leader Fine Gael never had, I would just like to add the most significant point which somehow Ivan Yates missed.

THE welcome news that a reduction in oil prices and cheaper mortgages cut inflation to its lowest rate in almost 11 years last month is inevitably overshadowed by worrying news that nearly 2,000 more jobs may be lost in Munster in the coming days or weeks.

Former PSNI assistant chief constable Peter Sheridan today challenged the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) to lead people towards reconciliation in the North.

YOUR series on religion in modern Ireland (March 20/21) covered the many influences shaping religion, the standing of religion in today’s society and the opportunities of the Celtic Tiger bridging the wide gap with darker economic climes when one alternative to the emigrant boat had the consoling name of “vocation”.

British actor Simon Pegg is to play a young Scotty in the new 'Star Trek' film.

WESTERN Europe took many of its ideas and culture from the old Roman empire, which brought about the greatest development in the use of hunting as an amusement or what is now claimed as ‘sport’.

AS THE latest episode in the hospital consultants’ contract saga plays out, it occurred to me that few of the people involved in these discussions are ever likely to be poor, marginalised or languishing on a waiting list for medical treatment.

CONCERN was growing last night about the whereabouts and well-being of a senior Fianna Fáil minister who is said to be in a state of total bewilderment following his party’s Ard Fheis last weekend.

DR COLMÁN ETCHINGHAM of NUI Maynooth asks why rural communities should be subjected to the construction of wind generators? (Irish Examiner letters, November 18).