Donald Trump once promised a “showbiz” convention, packed with flash, celebrities, and a “winner’s night” featuring sports stars and champion coaches.

Catherine Shanahan experienced Georgian Dublin at its finest at the Cliff Townhouse on St Stephen’s Green.

Whenever The Menu finds himself down in his cups, gloomily pondering the future of the planet, it is invariably an encounter with youth that restores his moral equilibrium and faith in humanity.

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The Menu has spent the last decade bending the ears of any with pockets of sufficient depth and the business nous necessary for creating and maintaining such aforementioned fiscal fortitude about the viability of a ‘permanent’ farmer’s market, believing it to be a marvelous business opportunity with equally positive social implications for the community.

Waterford-based GIY are joining forces with Bord Bia to search for Ireland’s favourite potato, a quest for inner ‘spudlove’, encouraging the growing, cooking and consumption of the National Tuber and participation in a ‘Spud-Off’, whereby local winners compete in a national competition at the GIY GROW festival, in Waterford, in mid-September.

A Libyan militant has pleaded not guilty to charges arising from the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans, including US ambassador Chris Stevens.

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The big event food event of this weekend is a rather stellar demo line-up including Ross Lewis, Frankie Mallon, Derry Clarke, Darina Allen and Rachel Allen in the Chef’s Kitchen at the Westport Music Festival.

There comes a time in spring when The Menu pokes his nose into the air and draws deep a draught from the east, checking the wind for first stirrings of his beloved West Waterford Festival of Food in Dungarvan (April 10-14).

Want to hightail it away for a last minute weekend break? Esther N McCarthy fits in two counties, two hotels and lots of shopping.

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"A young man is on the brink of emigration, but as he races through the streets of Dublin he comes to realise the spirit he’s leaving behind."

Demonstrators yesterday attacked the US embassies in Yemen and Egypt in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and US warships headed towards Libya after the US ambassador there was killed in related violence this week.

Two men have appeared before Cavan District Court this evening charged in connection with the death of Ciaran O'Connell.

A GREAT meal out often has one best dish, a mouth-watering triumph whose memory outlasts all others.

THE five-month-old patient at the Israeli field hospital has a number rather than a name.

X Factor semi-finalist Leon Jackson today said his dream came true when he was invited to duet with his idol Michael Buble on stage to a packed Wembley Arena.

Actress Jennifer Aniston earned a reputation as a maneater during her high school years, according to a childhood sweetheart.

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FAVOURITE Andrew Ledwith (North Monastery) will have to reproduce the form he displayed at the national inter-club championships to lift the senior boys’ title at the Kit Kat Irish Schools Cross-Country in Antrim on Saturday.

An Englishman who was offered €10,000 to plant a bomb in Limerick was jailed for 12 years today.

A 30-year-old man, who was offered €10,000 to plant a bomb in Limerick city, has been convicted of explosive charges and possession of more than €35,000 worth of cocaine.

The purity of a kilo of cocaine being smuggled into Ireland is reduced by up to five times before it is sold on the streets here, a trial has heard.

AN Englishman told gardaí he was offered €10,000 to plant a bomb that was intended to kill eight people in Limerick.

A 30-year-old man was offered €10,000 to plant a bomb in Limerick city, a trial has heard.

SÉAMUS POWER took the national Inter-counties Cross-Country Championships to a new level in Belvedere, Mullingar, yesterday, when he once again battled his way through the pain barrier to win the title for an amazing ninth successive time.