Family dogs may be able to predict epilepsy seizures in their owners up to an hour before they happen, according to the early indications of a new study.

Global markets and oil prices fell after US President Donald Trump ordered American companies to exit China after Beijing unveiled retaliatory tariffs on $75bn (€67bn) in US goods, throwing a new twist into the bitter trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

The meeting last week of the US Federal Reserve saw the central bank cut interest rates for the first time since 2008, writes John Fahey.

What is still to come remains hidden. It may be suspected, but it isn’t known. Nothing could have prepared us for the apparent disintegration of Great Britain.

US stocks rose yesterday , led by a rebound in the technology sector, as Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said the central bank would act as appropriate”to trade war risks, leaving the door open for a possible rate cut.

The Federal Reserve open market committee last week as expected left US interest rates unchanged but indicated it does not envisage hiking US interest rates this year.

The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates last night and said it was keeping the core of its plan to tighten monetary policy intact even as central bank officials said they would likely slow the pace of further rate increases next year.

It may be starting to sound like a broken record for emerging markets, with the twists and turns of US-China trade tensions likely to dominate investor concerns this week.

The appointment of young Dublin West TD Jack Chambers was the sum total of change to the Fianna Fáil front bench in the reshuffle announced by Micheál Martin on Thursday, writes Daniel McConnell

Theresa May's handling of the border question could bring Brexit negotiations "crashing down", according to the UK Government's former chief negotiator on Northern Ireland.

US stocks dived in another dizzying day of trading after President Donald Trump promised stiff tariffs on imported steel and aluminium.

Fears for some sort of sharp correction in global stock markets are growing this week, says the former chief of an Irish stockbroking firm, as jitters about sky-high valuations of American stocks continue.

Margaret Thatcher’s chief legal adviser believed prosecutions would “go as high as chief superintendent” within the RUC over an alleged shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland, newly released secret files reveal.

The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point but left its rate outlook for the coming years unchanged even as policymakers projected a short-term acceleration in US economic growth.

His nomination as the next head of the US Federal Reserve means Jerome Powell is set to become one the world’s most powerful and influential individuals, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

A couple are prepared to leave a Cork property acquired by a fund and return to the Netherlands by the end of March next year, the High Court has heard.

Ireland has been ranked as the country best able to feed its inhabitants in a global food security index.

A heavily pregnant woman and her partner, who are living in a property acquired by a fund, can remain there until at least October, a High Court judge has said.

A heavily pregnant young woman and her partner, who are living in a property acquired by a fund, can remain there until at least October, a High Court judge has said.

From the moment the exit poll was announced at 10pm on Thursday, and it was apparent that Theresa May was about to lose her Commons majority, the potential role for the Democratic Unionist Party took centre stage.

A Dublin couple, who reneged on their mortgage repayments just under four years ago, lost their upmarket Castleknock home to “the governor and company of the Bank of Ireland” yesterday.

The minister with responsibility for the OPW has been urged to intervene in talks with the contractors of the stalled Bandon Flood Relief Project.

If he tries for a long goodbye, or even no goodbye at all, he puts himself at the mercy of the next crisis, writes Fergus Finlay

Wales 7 Ireland 12: Ireland Women’s head coach Tom Tierney is wary of the challenge his team face in Friday’s Six Nations Grand Slam decider with England.

Junior Minister John Halligan is due to be married to his long-term partner in Cork next week.

Johanne Powell appeared on The Late Late Show with Ryan Tubridy last night to discuss her life as a carer to her 32-year-old daughter Siobhan.

Johanne Powell, the mother of a 32-year-old disabled child Siobhan Powell, appeared on The Late Late Show to talk about the life of a carer.

SPINAL disc herniation, also known as a slipped disc, is a medical condition affecting the spine in which a tear in the outer, fibrous ring of an inter-vertebral disc allows the soft, central portion and inflammatory chemical mediators to be released into the spinal canal resulting in severe back and leg pain.

Nigel Pearson has left Derby by mutual consent, the Sky Bet Championship club have announced.

Finn Harps 0, Longford Town 1: Finn Harps were shocked as they slumped to a seventh defeat on the trot to leave them hovering just above the drop zone. This defeat at Finn Park against rock bottom basement side Longford — whose only previous win came on the opening day of the season — will have set the alarm bells ringing.

Hillary Clinton has been ordered by a US judge to answer questions in writing from a conservative legal advocacy group about her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

Beara is currently paying tribute to John Kingerlee, perhaps the greatest of the

Dundalk 4 Longford Town 3

Longford Town 0 Cork City 3: Mark O’Sullivan was sprung from the bench and duly made a major impact as Cork City produced a seventh straight league win to consolidate second place in the Premier Divison table at City Calling Stadium.

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