Tanaiste Simon Coveney described it as an unprecedented gathering of people and leaders who are interested in solutions to the challenges facing the planet.

More than 30 Heads of State, UN representatives and ambassadors are to attend a special summit in Cork to highlight challenges small island nations face from climate change and to galvanise efforts to protect the world’s seas.

A new business aims to integrate computer technology into our brains. But is this mix of humanity with technology desirable or ethical, ask Agata Sagan and Peter Singer.

How would you spend €88m? Here are a few options.

The death toll from the remnants of Hurricane Earl grew to 39 in Mexico as a new tropical storm formed off the country's Pacific Coast.

Ex-army commando Neil Sinclair’s books on parenting hark back to a simpler time of climbing trees, skimming stones, and building forts, writes Áilín Quinlan.

Singer Taylor Swift has topped this year’s Forbes list of the world’s 100 highest paid celebrities, earning $170m (€153m) mainly thanks to her hugely successful 1989 world tour.

BROADCASTER Hector Ó hEochagáin is on the move again to celebrate TG4’s 20th anniversary.

Barcelona and Argentina footballer Lionel Messi and his father have been given suspended prison sentences of 21 months for tax fraud.

Prosecutors call for opposite decisions in high-profile fraud case

It’s more famous for its magnificent scenery, but Gougane Barra can now lay claim to being the best place in the country to answer nature’s call, after it was voted home to one of the world’s top 100 toilets.

120 homeless people took Mrs Duane up on the offer and enjoyed a three-course meal of appetizers, salads, salmon, gnocchi and tri-tip steak.

It was meant to the biggest day of 27-year-old Quinn Duane’s life - the day she walked up the aisle to marry her fiance Landon Borup.

They look after us all year — so where do Ireland’s top hoteliers take time out? Tony Clayton-Lea talks holidays of a lifetime with Francis Brennan, Kevin Dundon and more.

Like father, like son: Cleared for take-off and make air-show history.

The heritage committee of Unesco has said the outlook for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is poor due to threats including pollution and climate change but stopped short of listing it as “in danger”.

Gardaí have cracked an international online drugs trafficking operation involving criminals using sophisticated secret internet networks to buy and sell supplies.

Ecstasy tablets, LSD and other controlled drugs to value €180,000 have been seized by gardaí in a raid on ‘Darknet’ drug distribution centre in Dublin.

A US cruise ship carrying a healthcare worker who is being monitored for signs of ebola has returned to port in Texas.

President Barack Obama appointed an ebola tsar for the US, and the government said a Texas health worker who may have had contact with specimens from an ebola patient was isolated on a cruise ship.

A health care worker who handled a lab specimen from an Ebola-infected man from Liberia who died of the disease is on a Caribbean cruise ship where she has self-quarantined and is being monitored for signs of infection.

Those who put money in the collapsed Banners Broker investment scheme have been given the opportunity to stake a claim for their losses.

One of the liquidators appointed to the controversial investment company Banners Broker International has said that creditors will get an opportunity to register their claim to the company’s frozen cash pile.

With just $6m apparently available for creditors and the many Irish investors seeking the return of their investment, the affairs of liquidated Banners Broker promise to be messy despite assurances from some at the top, writes Investigative Correspondent Conor Ryan

The head of the suspected pyramid scheme Banners Broker has tried to reassure worried investors that there is still money in the company and that it has moved operations to the Central American country Belize.

Thousands of Irish investors have been left counting the cost after the company behind Banners Broker, a suspected online pyramid scheme, was wound up owing millions.

A hidden talent search has been launched across Ireland with the aim of discovering one extraordinary person with the nation's most unusual talent.

The bankrupt co-star of the secretly recorded phone calls with Michael Lowry looks to be on the verge of leading a €9.5m takeover of Doncaster Rovers football club.

Barcelona star Lionel Messi appeared at a court in Catalonia to answer questions relating to tax evasion.

Football superstar Lionel Messi and his father have appeared before a Spanish judge to answer questions in a multimillion-euro tax fraud case.

LAST year people sniffing around the potential of a burgeoning online company were explicitly told “every single person who joins Banners Broker makes money”.

An online ‘get rich quick’ business that promised investors guaranteed returns has pulled out of Ireland, leaving thousands of people battling to recoup their money from an address in Belize in Central America.

Football star Lionel Messi and his father were ordered by a Spanish court today to appear for questioning in September as part of an investigation into tax fraud allegations.

A huge cargo ship detained in Dublin Port for non-payment of its crew was sold by court-ordered auction yesterday for €4.8m.

Former Barcelona president Joan Laporta defended Lionel Messi against allegations of tax fraud, a case experts say could carry a prison sentence for the Argentina star.

The Ukrainian and Russian crew of a freighter stranded in Dublin since December are to be paid almost €250,000 in owed wages and allowed to return home.

Ireland’s ambassador to Russia, Philip McDonagh, said recovering assets related to the Quinn family may help trade relations between the two nations.