He is due to take up the job at a crucial time for Brexit.

People who have invested in forestry over the past three decades are now turning an old rural saying on its head.

Mobile roaming charges are to be scrapped across the European Union from June 2017.

“Down the Mardyke through each elm tree” is one of the great Irish lyrics just as Slievenamon’s “To see our flag unfurled”.

TDs are expected to hold talks with Europe’s Regional Policy Commissioner Pawel Samecki later this week as the Goverment considers a formal application for flood damage cash support from Brussels.