The joy and release of Limerick’s All-Ireland win and the pain of his sister’s passing last year have changed Joe Quaid’s outlook on life.

Businessman Bernard Rocca and his wife, Theresa, face losing their €1 million Castleknock, Dublin home despite having the money in a legal account to clear off a mortgage debt of €131,000 and a second mortgage debt of 10 cent, a court heard today.

The Tánaiste has urged the country, and especially businesses, to prepare for a no-deal Brexit which he says has shifted from being a remote possibility to a real possibility.

Following this afternoon's rejection of Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement, Fianna Fáil's Brexit spokesperson Lisa Chambers believes that a no-deal Brexit is "a distinct possibility".

Latest: Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said the backstop needs to "come out" of Thresea May's Withdrawal Agreement with the EU in order to allow Brexit.

It is not too hard, in this season of pantomime rehearsals, to imagine a script from those masters of the netherworld just beyond the sober, grind-and-queue lives most of us lead — the Coen brothers — constructing a conversation between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. The great filmmakers might contrive to have those unchallengeable leaders discuss the difficulties facing other world leaders.

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What a week this is going to be for the chief. Assailed by critics on all sides, ridiculed in the media, undermined by rebellious underlings, and with another European test looming. Is this survivable?

Looking for the perfect bikini? Annmarie O'Connor has the best in show.

Riding the favourite in the famous colours of JP McManus and on a Joseph O’Brien-trained gelding at the Curragh is a dream challenge for most jockeys.

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Leaders of the 27 remaining EU states are now expected to agree at a Brussels summit on Friday that the second phase can begin.

The majority of people in the North would favour the Brexit border deal rejected by the DUP, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has told the Dáil.

Theresa May has issued a direct plea to EU leaders to clear the way for a Brexit deal which she can sell to British voters.

Sterling fell to the lowest point in nearly a month as reports speculated that UK prime minister Theresa May could face a leadership rebellion from within her own party and new figures showed a slump in UK car sales.

Theresa May's party conference speech descended into chaos as a prankster handed her a P45 unemployment notice on stage.

Sad-looking southerners shuffling about in dribs and drabs were everywhere in Manchester city centre on Saturday. They already looked beaten, and shrunk under the catcalls of locals. But enough of Conservatives attending their Party conference; how were the Super Eagles?

Daniel McConnell reports on Leo Varadkar’s meeting with Theresa May in Downing Street. 

It’s the new season made simple. Fashion editor Annmarie O’Connor reveals her six top Autumn/Winter trends – and how to wear them.

The chronology of Tadhg Morley, the Kerry footballer, runs in predictably straight lines.

The fact is that, although the outward and visible sign was poor communications, the underlying policy reality was the problem, writes Terry Prone.

The 10 MPs from the party could prove crucial in supporting the Conservatives.

When Peggy Harding was 13, she knitted two identical chocolate brown Aran cardigans for the First Communion of her twin brothers.

A "cold-hearted" son spelt his brother's name wrong in a bungled attempt to forge their mother's will and swindle tens of thousands of pounds.

Shakespeare may say that the apparel oft proclaims the man, but plenty of shame has been brought on our parliament and our country by people ‘appropriately’ dressed for the Dáil, writes Clodagh Finn.

There may be a few moves in Enda yet — a tango with Angela, a cha-cha-cha with the entire

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Nigel Farage has insisted Donald Trump will have to deal with Theresa May, despite her top team being "rude" about him.

A man has been handed a life sentence for murdering a fellow inmate at Cork prison last year.

Talking to eventer Padraig McCarthy this week as he prepared for the startof Ireland’s Olympic challenge tomorrow, the conversation has a recurring theme: Positivity. 

FORMER British prime minister David Cameron is being criticised for rewarding the “old boys network” in the honours list he submitted with his resignation. But one of the names on the list that has gotten most mentions, universally snide ones actually, is a woman, writes Alison O’Connor.

Andrea Leadsom has apologised to Theresa May "for any hurt I have caused" after the row over comments which appeared to suggest being a mother gave her an advantage as a potential British prime minister.

A book written by a Limerick ICA member has made the top 10 bestseller list in hardback non-fiction. Limerick Federation’s contest/ produce officer Theresa Storey recently published her first cookery book, Fruit on the Table.

The nephew of a 37-year-old woman whose body was discovered in a bog outside Athlone, Co Westmeath, four years ago has said his “much-loved” aunt was killed by a person who had placed “no value” on her life and had “no respect for the dignity of her body.”

A Limerick man whose conviction for murder was quashed following a successful appeal will be sentenced for manslaughter next week at the Central Criminal Court.

A well-known Tipperary publican and farmer who had a passion for vintage machinery died on Wednesday evening while starting a vintage lorry, one of his four devastated children said.