Adi Roche and Ali Hewson have been presented with a global humanitarian award.

It was a week in which the business news was dominated by the travails of dodgy German car salesmen and by the Flight of the Web Summit Earls to a less costly Lisbon.

Des O’Sullivan on the work of 19th century artist, James Mahony, who painted the major events of his time.

A magnificently conserved drawing of the Battle of Waterloo by Cork born artist Daniel Maclise (1809-1870) has just gone on display at the Royal Academy in London. The critically acclaimed cartoon — The Meeting of Wellington and Blucher after the Battle of Waterloo — is more than 13m wide and 3m high.

The Royal Cork Yacht Club (RCYC) — the world’s oldest — has just joined an exclusive club after twinning with Yacht Club de Monaco (YCM).

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A Swiss solar-powered plane has taken off from Abu Dhabi at the start of the first ever attempt to fly around the world without using a drop of fuel.

Some of our Christmas traditions are rooted in this country, others were imported from further afield. But many have evolved over the years, says Áilín Quinlan.

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

When Monaco’s reigning monarch Prince Albert married South African Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock in 2011, she was invariably referred to in the media as a commoner.

ONE only has to go back to 2012 to find a Nicole Kidman vehicle that elicited gasps among the critics at Cannes.

The story begins on water and ends on ice. Henley, Oxfordshire, July 1986. Gerry Macken and Pat McDonagh, from Dublin’s Neptune Rowing Club, were training for the town’s prestigious regatta.

Nelson Mandela was buried yesterday in the African ground that he loved after a funeral ceremony that included a 21-gun salute, fly-overs by military aircraft, and a eulogy by a traditional leader wearing an animal skin.

Man hopes to repeat cash giveaway

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From a bistro in Paris to a kayak in West Cork, Pól Ó Conghaile reveals his top romantic places, as Valentine’s Day approaches

Greek and British businessmen at the centre of a mass property fraud have been found guilty of swindling £740m (€891m) from AIB.

Prince Albert of Monaco has accepted an apology and substantial damages from Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper over an article suggesting his wife Princess Charlene was reluctant to marry him, lawyers said.

Whether popularised by the ancient Egyptians, St Boniface, or Dickens, it’s not festive until the tree’s up, says John Daly

Lorraine Wylie gets the royal treatment in Monaco and drops in on the Irish woman who hosts Europe’s most exclusive parties.

She was the Hollywood icon who married a prince. On the 30th anniversary of her death, PJ Gibbons looks back at the life of Grace Kelly.

Actress Emily Watson has continued her awards success for her role in a drama about serial killer Fred West.

They were the toast of the nation — but now the taxpayer has been left with a €50,000 bill after we raised a glass to Barack Obama, Prince Albert of Monaco, and Queen Elizabeth II.

FACED with a barrage of criticism when it chose a panda as one of it’s 12 female “faces of the year 2011”, a haughty BBC spokesperson wondered what all the fuss was about.

An equestrian centre owner has brought High Court proceedings aimed at preventing the owners of Ashford Castle from blocking what he claims is a right of way through the estate allowing access to his property.

THE failure to arrange a flight in time to bring Leitrim teenager Meadhbh McGivern to London for a life-saving liver transplant operation was primarily due to the absence of a single co-ordinating agency or individual with overall charge of the patient’s transport arrangements.

An inquiry has been ordered after a teenage girl missed out on a vital liver transplant in London because no aircraft could be sourced.

WITH a wink and a smile, Monaco’s ruler Prince Albert married South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock on Saturday in a ceremony attended by a who’s who of European royalty and the international elite.

ONE bride wore a trouser suit, the other a vintage ivory gown. One married a royal, the other a rock star.

Nobody needs to bow or scrape, but it would be nice if all would be polite when an 85-year-old woman comes to visit, just as our President Mary McAleese has been welcomed with graciousness on many occasions to Britain ...

PRINCE ALBERT of Monaco has revealed that an Irish university research post is to be established to commemorate his mother, the late Hollywood actress and Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly.

Monaco’s Prince Albert has revealed that an Irish university research post is to be set up to commemorate his late Hollywood actress mother Grace Kelly.

Prince Albert II of Monaco wished the Government every success tackling economic woes as he strolled through Dublin with his fiancée on a three-day State visit.

Prince Albert II of Monaco has arrived in Ireland at the start of a three-day state visit.

A DILAPIDATED cottage in Co Mayo — the home of his emigrant great grandfather in the 1800s — has been added at the last minute to the itinerary of Prince Albert of Monaco during his visit to Ireland next week.

Prince Albert II of Monaco will make a two-day State visit to Ireland next week.

150 years ago Victoria made what is undoubtedly the most famous visit by a member of the British royal family to these shores. Ryle Dwyer revisits the eight days that marked the start of a very valuable tourism trade.

Usain Bolt will run the 100 metres at the Samsung Diamond League meeting in Monaco on July 22.

PRINCE Albert of Monaco brought his fiancee, Charlene Wittstock, on a romantic weekend to the mid-west it has emerged.

IF Queen Elizabeth deigns to come to Cork during her State visit to Ireland, they may have to do a bit of heavy lifting at UCC. A statue of her predecessor, Queen Victoria, once held pride of place on the roof of the college’s Aula Maxima when it was Queen’s University Cork.

Prince Albert of Monaco is engaged to marry South African former Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock, the royal palace said today.

The 19th edition of the FIFA World Cup was today opened by a spectacular ceremony in Johannesburg, albeit in front of a less than capacity Soccer City.