After appearing in the Star Wars films, the next biggie for Irish actress Genevieve O’Reilly is Tin Star, Sky’s new TV series, writes Esther McCarthy

The parents of a 26-year-old Irishman who is presumed dead after disappearing in the waters of a river in Canada are enduring every family’s worst nightmare, a memorial service has been told.

The Trump administration has issued a presidential permit to pipeline builder TransCanada to build the Keystone XL pipeline.

Friends of a Wicklow native, who died in a car crash in Canada, are raising money for his family to bring his body home to Ireland.

Fiona Doyle probably wouldn’t have taken kindly to the suggestion at the time but the Limerick swimmer knows now that failure to make the Olympics four years ago may be one of the best things to have happened to her.

Handball champion Mikey Kelly has added more silverware to his collection after winning the overall award at the annual Traveller Pride Awards.

Canada oil-sands producers, including Suncor Energy, could resume production within a week after the threat subsides from wildfires that cut as much as 40% of the region’s output.

An Air Canada flight from Shanghai to Toronto has been diverted to Calgary after heavy turbulence injured 21 passengers, including three children.

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Tipperary’s John O’Dwyer has been named the 2015 Munster GAA hurler of the year. The 24-year old will be honoured at the provincial council’s annual awards gala dinner in Dromoland Castle this Saturday.

Ken Taylor, Canada’s ambassador to Iran who sheltered Americans at his residence during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, has died at the age of 81.

We’re used to borrowing books from a library but what if you could borrow tools or kitchen equipments as you need them? Elizabeth O’Neill looks at a community project in London where this is happening.

In Ireland, there is only one currency that trades at a profit when it comes to minority sports, so Fiona Doyle was front and centre with the general public last month when she won silver and bronze medals at the World University Games in Gwangju.

There were points along the way when Paul Brady considered cashing in his handball chips and walking away with his earnings.

Drawing on 40,000 years of his tribe, Frank Yamma has had a storied career, writes Áilín Quinlan

It’s been 15 years since an Irish team won the nations cup at Rotterdam and it’s guaranteed to be 16, as Ireland will not be represented today.

Stud owner Mary McCann confirmed yesterday that she had two clones from her deceased stallion Cruising. 

IT was on the fringes of a lounge bar conversation about the water charges when I heard something that annoyed me. 

ShowjumpingIreland (SJI) chairman Tony Hurley has confirmed Allianz Insurance will again support the Make-A-Wish Challenge in 2015, following its success in Cavan last weekend.

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We don't think we'll ever get sick of these surprise homecoming videos and, with more and more Irish emigrants returning home over the next few weeks for Christmas, hopefully there will be a lot more where this came from.

The Australian woman who sparked international alarm last year after convincing gardaí she was a child sex trafficking victim is set to be deported from Canada after making similar claims.

A giant meteor struck Canada within the last 70 million years, creating a crater five miles (8km) wide, scientists believe.

It’s no country for young men, especially in rural areas where the recession has decimated the jobs market.

The latest scramble for Canadian working visas has seen 3,850 permits grabbed inside 10 minutes.

Irish men and women last night snapped up thousands of Canadian Working Holiday Visas in under 11 minutes.

The story begins on water and ends on ice. Henley, Oxfordshire, July 1986. Gerry Macken and Pat McDonagh, from Dublin’s Neptune Rowing Club, were training for the town’s prestigious regatta.

It’s not as prestigious as the track-and-field, but since its inception in 1924 there has been plenty of drama on the slopes, says Jonathan de Burca Butler

In February 2010, Seán Greenwood took a volunteering job at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.

DO you want to be a writer? Novelist AL Kennedy’s book, On Writing, might be a guide. Kennedy will appear at next week’s Mountains to Sea book festival in Dublin.

A severe thunderstorm caused flash flooding in Toronto, cutting power to at least 300,000 in Canada’s largest city, shutting down subways, and leaving about 1,400 passengers stranded for hours on a commuter train filled with gushing water.

About 65,000 residents of Calgary are returning to their homes to assess the damage from flooding that has left Alberta’s largest city awash in debris and dirty water.

Severe flooding has killed at least three people in western Canada and forced up to 75,000 to leave their homes.

As many as 100,000 people could be forced from their homes by heavy flooding in western Canada, Calgary city officials said, while mudslides forced the closure of the Trans-Canada Highway around the mountain resort towns of Banff and Canmore.

Losing is never easy, but for one contestant in Canada’s Miss Universe competition the bad news came 24 hours later — after she’d been crowned the winner.

Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora has bowed out of their current tour.

People interested in working in Canada will be able to meet expats who have already made that move at a jobs expo at the Silver Springs Hotel in Cork City on Wednesday.

After seven years making sometimes difficult decisions, Robert Splaine is realistic to know his reappointment as Ireland show jumping manager may not be greeted with unanimous acclaim.

A small plane carrying three Canadians disappeared while flying over an Antarctic mountain range, and bad weather was hampering a search.

About 10 years ago a son of mine, having qualified as a secondary school teacher, decided to go to Lima in Peru, on a three-year contract, teaching English at a school there.

It’s advertising itself as the fifth-most liveable city in the world, and promises well-paid, secure jobs for hundreds of Irish workers with the right skillset.

Showjumping Ireland is to investigate the serious injury of Deirdre Bourns, mother of international showjumper Andrew Bourns, after she was struck by a horse at Cavan Equestrian Centre Indoor Championships on Wednesday.

An electrician who slapped a garda on the face while she was dealing with an unruly situation on the street was sentenced to five months in jail yesterday.