Netflix has announced that Danish post-apocalyptic series The Rain season 2 will premiere on May 17.

Paul McLauchlan reports from London Fashion Week on the designer who stole the show: Simone Rocha – the most important name in Irish fashion.

Beautiful landscapes, outdoor activities, medieval architecture — Transylvania has it all. But with Halloween around the corner, Eimear Ryan visited with one thing in mind — vampires.

Ireland’s largest health, fitness and wellness festival will take place in the new location of The Royal Hospital Kilmainham on May 12 and 13.

Jack Crotty is from Douglas in Cork. He runs the Rocket Man salad business and is also involved in the organisation of the Sounds From A Safe Harbour music festival in Cork this weekend.

The inspirational Mark Pollock speaks to Irene Feighan and reveals how he aims to make Ireland the world’s leading research centre for robotics and spinal stimulation.

A man arrested in connection with a stabbing and acid attack on a woman in Limerick has been released without charge.

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Helicopter video of a high-speed police pursuit in the US shows a driver stepping slowly out of his truck, kneeling and putting his hands on the ground before several officers rush him and start beating him.

Atletico Madrid 2 Barcelona 0, Atletico win 3-2 on aggregate: Holders Barcelona are out of the Champions League after Antoine Griezmann’s brace sent Atletico Madrid through to semi-finals with a 2-0 quarter-final second-leg victory.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has shared the first picture of his newborn daughter, Jasmine.

Doug Dubois’ images of a Cobh estate are a glimpse into the world of childhood, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Nina Simone may be a dinner party staple, but there is also a deep and darker side to the singer, says Ed Power

Idris Elba writes and directs King For A Term on Sky Arts, Thursday, Idris Elba as Dad and Omar Agyei as Akuna.

Sometimes we choose our challenges. And, sometimes, challenges choose us. What we decide to do about them is what counts.

Long-serving Irish Examiner columnist Colm Rapple has passed away following a short illness.

Roger Federer breathed a sigh of relief after surviving an early deficit and an injury scare to reach the third round of the Australian Open today.

Equestrian: Thomas Ryan endured what would typically be a frustrating four faults in the World Cup class at Mechelen on Tuesday.

FOOD, be it the biscuits our grandmother gave us, the tea our mothers bought, or our favourite summer ice-creams, has a hugely important place in our memories, even more so for emigrants.

Adventurer unbowed despite blindness and paralysis, says Suzanne Harrington

As Autumn swept in with glorious sunshine, Cork city libraries  yesterday celebrated the new season with its Children’s Bookfest 2014.

The US girl group featuring tragic singer Simone Battle has achieved UK chart success in the aftermath of her death.

US girl group singer Simone Battle, a finalist on 'The X Factor' USA in 2011, has died.

God’s Pocket (15A) is a hardscrabble, blue-collar neighbourhood infested with grifters and thieves.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to file suit for defamation over a US movie inspired by the sex scandal that brought down the former IMF chief.

Designer John Rocha has retired from London Fashion Week after almost 30 years. Rachel Marie Walsh remembers his fashion highlights

TV presenter Annabel Giles last night became the first contestant to be voted off the latest series of 'I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!' – then launched a strong attack on former campmate Amy Willerton.

Vincent Simone caused a stink after his fellow contestants in I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! discovered he was urinating near the camp because he was too scared to go to the loo in the dark.

Shane Warne insists he and Elizabeth Hurley haven't split up.

Liz Hurley and Shane Warne reportedly split up over his ex-wife.

Check out our tips from today’s horse races across Ireland and the UK.

Scottish cartoonist and illustrator Tom Gauld’s comic strips have been enlivening the Saturday Review section of The Guardian for years. Now he releases his first collection of those strips in a book titled You’re All Just Jealous Of My Jetpack.

Journalist Brenda Power stands by a column in which she criticised the “appalling” behaviour of a man who sued over the interruption of his filming at the birth of his first child, the High Court heard yesterday.

West Cork-based artist Cormac Boydell, who specialises in ceramics, has an exhibition opening at the Ballymaloe House Grain Store on May 3 as part of Ballymaloe’s Literary Festival of Food and Wine.

Anne Hathaway keeps in shape by dancing.

Chart star George Michael declared it was “great to be alive” as he made a triumphant return to the stage in Vienna after fighting for his life 10 months earlier.

Elizabeth Hurley has thanked her fiance's children for being so "welcoming, inclusive and charming" towards her.

The Vatican orthodoxy watchdog today announced a full-scale overhaul of the largest umbrella group for nuns in the United States.

Elizabeth Hurley and Shane Warne are planning to get married in two countries next year.

TEN minutes came the shout from a heavily tattooed, hipster stylist as he races through the backstage area at Maria Grachvogel, at the opening day of London Fashion Week, nimbly avoiding concentrated knots of makeup artists, nail techs and hairdressers who are beating the clock to fine-tune the polished beauty look the designer expects out on the runway in double-quick time.

SIMONE FARINA is an unlikely football hero.