In the age of the electronic reader, Carol O’Callaghan looks at traditional materials and craft in bookbinding.

On the 40th anniversary of Éamon de Valera’s death, his biographer Ryle Dwyer examines the changing perceptions of the long fellow including why he was called a spy.

A teenager drowned when the speeding, overcrowded car in which he had been a front-seat passenger lost control and ended up in a waterlogged drain.

I’m told that a bittern has been heard booming in north Co Leitrim. 

Days after its launch and the 1916 centenary website Ireland.ie has already been taken down for maintenance. 

Two members of the Travelling community have been jailed for taking part in a violent attack on gardai in a halting site

There were new Club Senior Football champions crowned in a number of counties today, with Errigal Ciaran ending their six-year wait for another Tyrone title.

UCC selector Dr Con Murphy believes that momentum was the key to a facile 20-point victory against Moyle Rovers in yesterday’s semi-final.

Three people have been arrested in connection with the murder of a 28-year-old man in Dublin last month.

CAHIR’S quest to go one step better in the 2009 Tipperary SFC shipped a major blow on Saturday when they lost to Ardfinnan in Round one.

A 47-YEAR-OLD man was yesterday given a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of his brother, near Kilgarvan, Co Kerry, on December 17, 2006.

A robber will not be going home for Christmas this year because his release from jail would "be a disaster for himself and everyone else" according to Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The Four Nation International Cadet Championships got underway at 6pm this evening with twenty two bouts at the National Stadium in Dublin. Ireland, Germany, Sweden and Lithuania are taking part in this years event which concludes on Sunday next (June 3rd).

Gardaí are continuing their investigations into the killing of Thomas McDonagh, who was gunned down outside his home in Clondalkin on Friday night.

THERE were fears yesterday that the original, hand-written words and music of Ireland's national anthem could leave the country after an auction in April with a guide price of €1.2 million.

More than 30 years after it was built, another of the Ballymun towers was reduced to rubble today in the latest stage of the area's regeneration.

“WE place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God whose blessing we invoke upon our arms, and we pray that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, inhumanity or rapine”

IRISHMEN and Irishwomen: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.

A MAN, in his late 50s, who was seriously injured in an assault at his home in Listowel, Co Kerry, on Wednesday night, died yesterday afternoon at Tralee General Hospital.

A man who suffered serious head injuries in an assault in Co Kerry on Wednesday night has died in hospital in Tralee.