IT’S easy to see what Michael Collins was trying to achieve in The Death of all Things Seen.

Sue Leonard talks to Michael Collins, who has drawn on his own experiences and those of earlier, tragic, generations of emigrant Irish to breathe life into his latest novel.

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Give your home a lift with a splash of seasonal colour. Esther McCarthy unearths some chic and cheerful gems.

Bantry ICA PRO Ursula Kingston has fond memories of the massive annual carnival held in post-Second World War Cologne. 

Generations of lovebirds have picked out engagement and wedding rings there, but now Hilser Bros jewellers on Grand Parade is to close its doors after 155 years in business in Cork City centre.

Michael Rooker, who plays Yondu in Guardians of the Galaxy, told the Irish Examiner that the film’s script is indeed finished and filming will begin very soon just outside of Atlanta.

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Expectations exceeded as 6,000 attend Cork City Primary Sports event

I took great comfort in reading Ursula Halligan’s article about her sexuality. While her journey is different to mine we are of a similar generation and I can identify with so much of what she wrote especially that she tried to deny her sexuality.

YOU can see the final bend and five-furlong straight at Mallow Racecourse from the upstairs bedrooms of Firville House.

Back for more punishment, all so that we can all have even more fun and rows, writes Kieran Shannon.

As it opens to the public today and now entering its 51st year, Evelyn Ring goes behind the scenes at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition to find out what ideas and innovations some of Ireland’s most industrious and talented young students have come up with

Kerryman makes the ultimate sacrifice.

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Highlights include the finales of Homeland and Mad Men, and the new dating show My Best Shot

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Glenda Gilson and Paul McGrath.

Claire Droney indulges in some five-star treatment at No 128 St Stephen’s Green.

Get your house in order or we’ll stop cashing your cheques, Bank of Ireland told Dungarvan businessman David Walsh in Jan 2009.

Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler intervened to prevent a Jewish First World War veteran being sent to a death camp, a German Jewish newspaper has reported.

Tears flowed freely at a requiem Mass as a grieving father paid tribute to his “loving and caring son” who was described as a “popular, generous” teenager who was “full of fun”.

A small community has been plunged into grief following the sudden death of a popular 15-year-old who was due to begin his Junior Certificate today.

Such is the Disneyesque look and feel of the Swiss lakeside city of Lucerne that one almost expects to encounter Beauty and the Beast’s Belle sauntering through its medieval streets with her nose stuck in a book, studiously avoiding the overbearing advances of the otherwise curiously attractive Gaston.

IT’S been a frustrating last few weeks for the brothers Jacob, Michael and Rory, of Oulart-The Ballagh.

Wexford captain Ursula Jacob was in "seventh heaven" as she reflected on a third All-Ireland Senior Camogie success for Wexford in five years at Croke Park yesterday.

AN historic day for Wexford camogie in Croke Park yesterday, the first time they had done back-to-back at senior level, and also their first ever intermediate title.

HISTORY was made when the largest local authority in the country elected its youngest ever mayor.

THE Blarney teenager who stabbed his uncle to death last year was jailed for six years yesterday as the sentencing judge spoke out on the depressingly large number of knife killings committed by the very young in Ireland.

The Cork teenager who stabbed his uncle to death last year was jailed for six years today.

A BLARNEY teenager who stabbed his uncle to death with a jagged edged flick-knife now meets the deceased in his nightmares, it emerged at his sentencing hearing.

One of Ireland's first sextuplets has died, according to the family's publicist Max Clifford.

Ireland’s first sextuplets have been named, it was announced today.

THE remains of award-winning actress Anna Manahan were last night removed to the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Waterford, prior to her burial today.

Finland’s Minea Blomqvist shot a closing 65 to win the Finnair Masters in Helsinki by one shot from compatriot Ursula Wikstrom.

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) is set to issue guidelines to designers ahead of the city’s fashion week in February.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny today paid tribute to former party TD and senator Larry McMahon.

TOM CLEARY was once synonymous with all that was good about Limerick, Munster and Irish rugby.

BUILDING a home in Killarney was a bit like a busman’s holiday for Ursula and Josef Waldis - they simply swapped the Alps for the Reeks, and Lake Zurich for the Lakes of Killarney.

One of the women charged with falsely imprisoning a baby-sitter for three days after they accused her of stealing £1,200 cash told gardai the alleged victim had admitted taking money previously.

Toy Story has beaten traditional cartoon classics to be named the top Disney film of all time, according to a new poll.