Kya deLongchamps investigates the history behind the myth

Businesses needed to “prepare for the worst”,Heather Humphreys said, with just over 60 days until the Brexit deal deadline of October 31.

Minister for European Affairs Helen McEntee has said it is important to remain calm following British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to suspend parliament.

As the annual Waterford Walls festival gets under way today, Richard Fitzpatrick chats to some of the artists involved about their previous work and plans for their allotted sites in the city

The story of Irish indentured servants sent from here to Barbados and Jamaica from the 1600s onwards is complex and has become an immersive research project for multimedia artist Marianne Keating, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Finian McGrath is an able cynic, not an amiable fool, writes Gerard Howlin

It’s as if they learned everything they know about Ireland from comic books when they were eight, writes Fergus Finlay

Many’s the time most of us of a certain generation have been heard to utter the old country saying, “Well, that beats Banagher!” when shocked and awed by an unexpected development of one kind or another.

Four limestone statues which were stolen from Charleville in Co Cork in 2011 have been recovered by gardaí.

The National Monuments Service has confirmed it has been contacted about another Meath archaeological find uncovered by the heatwave — the possible childhood home of St Oliver Plunkett.

Inishbofin is one of two islands so named in Ireland (not that there are others elsewhere) — the other is a beautiful scimitar of an island just off Magheroarty Beach in Co Donegal which is minute in comparison.

So here’s a thing: There are three counties left in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship and three counties from the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship are still in contention to win the All-Ireland.

Keep swimming like a shark because there’s always someone younger, prettier and more talented than you right behind you, writes Terry Prone

An image of the famous field marshall during his posting to Cork is up for auction, says Des O’Sullivan.

Kya deLongchamps traces the history of wallpaper from the early stone-chilled castles of the medieval period, to the rococo mansions of the restoration and beyond.

One of the rarest pieces of Irish silver ever to come to market has sold at auction in England for £25,000 (€29,800).

One of the rarest pieces of Irish silver ever to come to market will be auctioned in England later this month.

Two Greenpeace activists have scaled Nelson's Column in London to attach a gas mask to the famous statue to highlight air pollution in Britain.

GOOD profit levels are now recorded at Kilkenny’s Lyrath Estate hotel and spa on 170 pastoral acres, up for sale a decade after it opened at a development cost of €50m.

We owe a debt of gratitude to Alice Hanratty (Irish Examiner, February 9) for blowing the whistle on the outrageous proposal to add the names of British soldiers to the list of1916 patriots for display in Glasnevin Cemetery.

 

Clare County Council recently voted through the incorporation of the Northern Distributor Road and the re-zoning of lands in south east Clare into the Clare County Development Plan.

Galway remains the most idiosyncratic of Irish cities. Tony Clayton-Lea pays a visit to Connaught’s capital.

Knocklofty House may trigger a memory from the 1970’s.

Kilmacurragh’s gardeners champion native meadow and hedgerow in one of our most important repositories. Michèle Browne reports.

Tourism in East Cork received a boost yesterday when Michael Ring, the junior tourism minister, advocated Youghal as a likely “capital of the Ancient East”.

Forget about The Tudors. A new series captures what it was really like in the era of Henry VIII, writes

Six months after staggering through college, and confused as to my future prospects, I took a working post in southern Sweden. 

PLANNING a weekend that keeps parents and young children interested and content can be a challenge. 

Project Arts Centre, Dublin

Birdwatching amid the sands and a silver sea

Little did Oliver Cromwell think when he infamously threatened people with the prospect of going “to hell or Connaught”, that a Mayo farmer would win the prestigious prize of Ireland’s Young Farmer of the Year.

One of Ireland’s oldest festivals is on this weekend and it’s also one of our more unusual ones - famously involving a goat.

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Limerick City Council held its final meeting this evening after 817 years, ahead of being merged with the County Council on June 1.

The planned attendance of members of the British Royal family at the centenary commemorations of the 1916 Rising has excited comment and opposition, not least from Fergus Finlay (Opinion, April 15).

CHILDREN flanking Pope Francis released two doves from the window of the Apostolic Palace in front of an audience of 10,000. Doves symbolise peace; His Holiness pleaded for the violence in Syria to end. The gesture was not peaceful.

RTÉ’s comedy queen Jennifer Maguire is back in another hilarious video for her hidden camera show ‘The Fear’.

THE month began with reports of a tornado in Galway. Or was it extra-strong wind? Within 24 hours, a restaurant owner had admitted that the striking image of the ‘tornado’ was a Photoshop fake.

Location: Clonmel

In response to Fr Butler’s letter (Aug 23) about rebel Cork, and Cork supporting Perkin Warbeck’s claim to the English throne: some four years before Warbeck’s claim, Lambert Simnel also was proclaimed king in Cork, thought by some to be one or other of the princes in the Tower, and was accompanied to London to seize the throne, by the mayor and officials of Cork.