Europe experienced a truly miraculous few months 30 years ago. At a precipice, blood could have flowed. The floodgates of change opened instead, writes Carl Bildt

From the Eiffel Tower at 130, to 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Suzanne Harrington rounds up the milestones worth travelling for.

The planned new Metro line in south Dublin will create a “Berlin Wall” severing communities, forcing people to use cars and creating urban blight, residents have warned.

The Shortest History of Germany by James Hawes Old Street Publishing Review: Des Breen

European leaders today are expected to give unanimous support to a special declaration that the North would rejoin the EU after Brexit in the event of a vote for Irish reunification.

Take a walk through the gardens of Lismore Castle in County Waterford with Peter Dowdall where you are guaranteed to see much more than you expcted.

It was Irish style parish-pump politics that brought Donald Trump to Presidential office but Irish writer Paddy Duffy reflects on whether, unlike the Healy Rae's, The Donald's rhetoric on the campaign trail was based on a real sense of civic duty to the people who voted for him. 

For the past 20 years, Bayern Munich has enjoyed a near-monopoly of the Bundesliga title.

Donald Trump has not directed any tweets toward Bono and the ‘interview’ … well, not yet.

The prospect of a united Ireland must remain an option in the wake of Brexit, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.

WHAT do you think you ought to read in a ‘very English’ book about post-war Europe, Spies and the Cold War? 

Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the long-serving German foreign minister who was one of the key architects of the country’s 1990 reunification, has died aged 89.

It’s more than a quarter of a century since the Berlin Wall came down and communism was rolled up like a musty carpet across Eastern Europe.

David Bowie has taken on many forms, from the androgynous dresser to disco dancer to juxtaposing jazzer. He influenced many but had many influence him in style, concepts and sounds, writes Stephen Dorney.

A German woman accused of involvement in 10 neo-Nazi murders broke her silence for the first time in four years, telling a court in Munich that she only learned of the deaths after they had taken place.

From Lock, Stock to his current offering, The Man From U.N.C.L.E, Guy Ritchie has

The opposition’s solution to a creaking infrastructure is to get the rich to pay for it, writes Michael Clifford

I’ve listened to various media outlets talk about the Confederate Flag. I’m deeply offended that as a Cork supporter, who has carried the flag at matches, I am to be categorised with bigoted racist people from another continent.

WATCH OUT, BMW, a new German rival is on the scene: The sputtering, yet lovable Trabant is getting an electric makeover 25 years after the country’s reunification.

A luxury castle hotel has made an historic new addition to its grounds — two sections of the Berlin Wall.

The fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago, heralding the end to the Cold War between East and West, showed the world that "dreams can come true" and should inspire people trapped in tyranny everywhere, Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel led celebrations today marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, calling it an example of the human yearning for freedom.

This Sunday marks 25 years since the fall of the Wall.

David Hasselhoff has five wives in his new TV show.

The Taoiseach is in Germany today to meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel.

SOME creatures have massive public profiles; elephants, big cats and pandas come to mind.

Roads to Berlin

GERMAN chancellor Angela Merkel, an unflappable pastor’s daughter, is closing in on a third term in Sunday’s general election, cementing her title as the world’s most powerful woman.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has absolved herself of blame for the eurozone’s north-south split during the debt crisis, saying she has Europe’s best interests at heart when pressing the need to become globally competitive.

As a soldier in an army occupying West Germany, and West Berlin, I remember walking through utter devastation in Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin.

Margaret Thatcher was a great world heroine who, along with former US President Ronald Reagan, was instrumental in winning the freedom of the hundreds of millions subjugated by the former Soviet Easter Bloc.

The European Commission – focus of much of Baroness Thatcher’s political venom in the 1980s – described her as a “circumspect yet engaged player” in the EU.

Hundreds of protesters have forced construction crews to stop work on removing a small section from one of the few remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall to make way for a luxury flats project.

Hundreds of protesters have forced construction crews to stop work on removing a small section from one of the few remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall to make way for a luxury flats project.

The majority of east Germans regard their western compatriots as “arrogant” and mostly interested in money, according to a new survey that highlights distinct east-west identities.

Enda’s German gong overshadowed

Welshman Ken Follett, who has sold more than 130 million books, tells Caroline O’Doherty he’d probably be able to survive a dud film adaptation

WHICH version of The Hoff is your personal favourite?

Euro 2012 co-hosts Poland and Ukraine have “already won the European Championship” for the legacy it will leave, UEFA president Michel Platini said last night.

Last week, work took me to the German capital Berlin, where I spent four days in the company of cement kiln refractory specialists from around the globe.

JT: Comfortable in his own skin whatever anyone else thinks

In the biggest challenge of her six-and-a-half years in office, German chancellor Angela Merkel walks a fine line between appearing to be a soft touch, and displaying a lack of commitment to the maintenance of the eurozone, writes Kyran Fitzgerald