We are confronted by a US presidential second-term election cycle. We all must contend too with various interests. Do we have in play a version of ‘operation boot’? The 1952 US/UK regime-change operation in Iran. And do people regionally also view the late, recently murdered Major General Qasem Soleimani as an Iranian Che Quevara? Would Iran’s supreme Ayatollah be viewed as an Iranian Fidel Castro? How annoying for a rightist US administration: a Cuba in the Middle East. How much more death and devastation will flow out of our fossil-fuel dependency and the military powers of the main players, the chief one being the US?

Through the daring with which it has lifted the curtain on the British royal enterprise, Peter Morgan’s saga ‘The Crown’ has moved into in a class of its own, says Giles Harvey

It was obvious in Wexford last week, when Fine Gael displayed Clinton-grade hubris.

With the royals celebrating another engagement, who are Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi?

Spike Island in Co Cork and the Cliffs of Moher in Co Clare are in contention to be named World's Best Attraction at the prestigious International Travel and Tourism Awards. (ITTA)

Being a royal isn’t easy, particularly when it comes to matters sartorial. Just ask Kate Middleton.

The activist and writer appears in the September issue of the magazine which is guest edited by Meghan Markle.

The appeal of vacations linked to sites connected to death, destruction and atrocities is a fast growing global sector known as 'dark tourism'.

It was hard not to feel some degree of sympathy for Theresa May as she drove through the gates of Buckingham Palace yesterday to offer her resignation as prime minister to Queen Elizabeth.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he wants to hear what incoming British prime minister Boris Johnson has to say about how he intends avoiding a hard Brexit.

To mark the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth, a new exhibition charts the story of the feminist monarch. Suzanne Harrington meets the curator at Buckingham Palace I

Des O’Sullivan previews an event set to bring plenty of Hollywood glamour to Newbridge, Co Kildare.

Ours is a small country with a vast history, a vital chunk of which is displayed and explained in Dublin at the EPIC Emigration Museum.

Ireland's EPIC Emigration Museum has been voted Europe's Leading Tourist Attraction for 2019.

One of the star speakers at yesterday’s anti-Trump demonstrations in London was the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, who — faithful to his 30-year career as a protestor — declined an invitation to attend the Buckingham Palace banquet normally held for state visits.

US president Donald Trump has said he is looking forward to his trip to Ireland next week.

Joint engagements will be covered by all platforms.

Marjorie Brennan speaks to James McLoughlin about his striking life-size piece of sculpture on display at Cork Airport

Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick's meeting with the Queen on her birthday turned out to be more than a bit awkward, not just because he had a broken leg.

Turning down an opportunity isn’t a negative move — it’s an active decision and can be rewarding personally, according to author Abigail Headon.

Want a relaxed Christmas party look? Then incorporate athleisure into your festive wardrobe, writes Paula Burns

What do you give the woman who has everything? If that woman is Queen Elizabeth II then anything involving horses would be the best bet, writes Brendan O'Brien

Next weekend my missus and myself will celebrate 18 years of marital bliss, writes Denis Lehane.

A much sought after original of the Irish Proclamation of the Irish Republic is to go under the auction hammer next month.

At the height of the debate about opening up Croke Park to ‘foreign’ games, a hurling aficionado of my acquaintance offered up a soundbite for the ages.

Three Samaritans volunteers from Ireland, including a self-confessed “royal watcher”, have been invited to Buckingham Palace.

Tens of thousands of US children have been exposed to the bizarre claim that footballs were once produced from the stomach tissue of executed Irish prisoners.

No I haven’t walked the 200 feet of tunnel that reputedly leads from renowned London wine merchants Berry Brothers and Rudd to Buckingham Palace, but I am assured such a route exists, writes Ronan O’Gara.

The Government is determined to fast-track the delivery of more social housing projects, Junior Housing Minister Damien English has insisted.

The company which supplied lingerie to the British queen has lost its royal warrant after the firm's director wrote a book revealing details of her work with the royal family.

Princess Michael of Kent has apologised after wearing a brooch which has been deemed racist.

Ahead of the release of his 38th studio album, Van Morrison speaks to Catherine Wylie about fame, his relentless work rate and a self-described cult following.

The widow of a man who tried to save the life of murdered British MP Jo Cox has collected a medal of bravey on his behalf.

Billy Connolly has said "men will have to get a grip on themselves" in the wake of the sexual harassment scandal gripping the entertainment industry.

George Patterson fronts The Roaring Forties, a band formed in 2003 for the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. 

President Donald Trump is set to make a scaled-down visit to Britain next year, it has been reported.

A woman has been charged by police in England after being arrested while trying to scale the front gates of Buckingham Palace in London.

A woman has been arrested after attempting to scale the front gates of Buckingham Palace, Scotland Yard said.

Ask Audrey has been sorting out the people of Cork for years.

Fáilte Ireland has been urged to review its decision not to provide funding to Cork County Council for a major upgrade of facilities at Spike Island, which has been voted Europe’s leading tourist attraction.

Spike Island’s former inmates may not remember the island facility in a celebratory way but Irish tourism interests will surely celebrate the fact that the island was named, in St Petersburg on Saturday night, as Europe’s leading tourist attraction at the prestigious World Travel Awards 2017.

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A second man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after three police officers were injured in an alleged terrorist incident outside Buckingham Palace.