An engineering expert who helped advise the Italian government on flood defences in Venice insists that the river Lee dams can protect Cork from river flooding without the need for "high walls".

50-year-old Richard Sheridan, with an address at Cottenham in Cambridge in the UK, was sentenced to 14 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release.

You've put in the slog, climbed the ladder, you're at the top of your career... what does it take to give it all up and start again? Richard Fitzpatrick meets three people and finds out what made them give up their safety nets and pursue their dream jobs.

The creator of Derry Girls is back with a new project, but don't expect it to echo the comedic elements of the hit Channel 4 TV show.

Finding the most effective way to lead a high performing business culture will be foremost on the agenda at UCC this Friday when motivational speaker Marcus Child presents the keynote presentation.

Perhaps as the two of them relaxed some evening in Cambridge, Seamus Heaney enlightened Derek Walcott about hurling and Croke Park and what happens when the known universe narrows into a man standing over a sideline cut with time running out on another season.

He’s worked with the world’s top names in fashion, and David Beckham hand-picked him to change the face of British label, Kent & Curwen. Paul McLauchlan meets Dublin-born designer Daniel Kearns.

So Meghan, the duchess of Sussex, gave birth to a son, and the British and in some cases, the Irish press, which for weeks has been positively giddy with rumour, was freed from its stifling wait for actual news of a royal baby.

Alex Goode feels he is the victim of a witch hunt at Saracens as the club’s all-for-one, one-for-all attitude goes out of the window when it comes to the squad’s fantasy football league.

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has claimed that Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg admitted to him that he had no idea what the Irish border was.

After its recent €3.5m acquisition, Cork-based scientific data firm Rinocloud is ambitious to grow, writes Trish Dromey

From old classics to modern literary fiction and meditation, ten celebs tell Richard Fitzpatrick their favourite read of 2018.

Patrick White, who was in his mid-40s, was a well-known face on the labour ward at CUMH and further afield.

In advance of his appearance at West Cork literary festival, novelist Joseph O’Neill tells Ellie O’Byrne about his new book of short stories, and the democratic emergency in the US.

More than 100 people turned out for the funeral of an RAF veteran in the UK who died with no known family, following a social media appeal.

Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Renowned British physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world's finest scientific minds, has died at the age of 76, a family spokesman said.

It's safe to say Patrick McEleney didn’t know much about this debut goal...

While Sean Maguire’s brace in Preston’s 3-1 Championship win at Bolton was the main Irish storyline from Saturday, Patrick McEleney will also have fond memories of a weekend where the weather wrecked havoc with the sports programme.

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The legendary band only ever played one gig in the Republic of Ireland. Jack Lyons recalls being part of that sparse crowd at the Arcadia in Cork in 1967.

College Pudding College or Cambridge pudding is just one of Mary Honner’s 30 recipes for sweet and savoury puddings.

Highly-educated people are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, a study shows.

Greece’s former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, says bourgeois liberal bleatings have long overlooked the attacks on the living conditions of working-class people

A woman who is believed to be the world’s longest surviving heart transplant patient is celebrating 35 years since her life-saving operation.

Wounds such as cuts and burns heal approximately 60% faster if they happen during the day rather than at night, a study has found.

A British local newspaper received an anonymous call about "some big news" in America 25 minutes before President John F Kennedy was assassinated, documents have shown.

What do the inventors of the submarine and the ejector seat, the surgeon who carried out the world’s first C-section and the first All-Black rugby captain have in common? They’re all Irish. With the help of the Epic — the Irish Emigration Centre — we profile 20 of our most famous 

Newly released MI5 papers have added fresh speculation that second generation Irishman ‘Paddy’ Costello, the son of a Dublin grocer, could have been The Sixth Man in the infamous Cambridge Spy Ring. Writer/researcher Johanna Lowry-O’Reilly looks at the evidence as to whether he was an Irish nightingale or a carrier pigeon?

Professor Stephen Hawking has celebrated his 75th birthday at a specially organised series of public lectures about gravity and black holes.

The real meaning of the word amateur has nothing to do with qualifications or where your income comes from, writes Dick Warner. 

The hugely popular film of The Lady in the Van, in which Alex Jennings played the writer Alan Bennett and Maggie Smith the eponymous lady, introduced Alan Bennett to a far wider audience. 

Upset by what had happened at the event in Cambridge, when she was 16, she went home and told her father Harris was a "dirty old man".

She was also disqualified from owning a dog for 10 years and ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work.

The Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen is a keen student of Adam Smith he tells JP O’Malley. But that doesn’t make him a blind follower of free market thinking

2016 was a year of commemorations, writes Josephine Fenton, but one was overlooked, at least in Ireland, if not in the Middle East: the hundredth anniversary of the Sykes-Picot agreement signed on May 16, 1916.

Irish rower Claire Lambe thought she knew all there was to know about hype and hysteria after competing in an Olympic final last September.

The Canada goose is a controversial bird, writes Richard Collins. 

I am in the Victoria and Albert museum with my brother who is just back from Kabul. 

When Michael Peppiatt stepped inside the French House, a dark, dank Soho pub, one busy lunchtime in June 1963, he could hardly have anticipated how life-changing an impact the next few hours would afford him.

Though with not a trace of Irish blood in him novelist Jeffrey Archer likes to be known as a seanchaí, a description he first encountered when chatting with a tramp in Dublin. This time round, he chats with Sue Leonard. 

Colette Sheridan talks to the author of a new book who wants you search for contentment in everyday things.