In Eric Bogle’s great anti-war song ‘The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ his narrator “lived the free life of the rover From the Murray’s green basin to the dusty outback I waltzed my Matilda all over” before he was called, like hundreds of Irishmen, to fight at Gallipoli.

I’M in Czechia, the new and less cumbersome English name for the Czech Republic, writing this in a caravan in the shade of a Scots pine on my son’s half acre of recreation land in the ‘moldavite belt’ of Lower Bohemia, north of the Sumava National Park and the Austrian border.

Dublin may have had 30,000 runners pounding its streets in the women’s mini marathon but all attention went Lee-side.

The ageing profile right across the European workforce is a general phenomenon rather than a particular problem in agriculture, according to the latest analysis by CAP expert Alan Matthews.

Fascists and other far-right extremists are set to assemble on Saturday in Warsaw for the march.

They were all killed by falling trees in Poland and the Czech Republic.

The EU is caught between Brexit Britain and a disenchanted group of Middle Europeans whose political sentiment is antithetical to the liberal ideals of the EU, says John Lloyd.

Andrej Babis and his ANO movement decisively won the Czech Republic's election today in a vote that shifted the country to the right.

Tesco shares fell up to 4% yesterday as a strong contribution from international assets to its first-half earnings suggested the British retailer is not immune to Brexit effects.

Austrian foreign minister Sebastian Kurz has urged his Italian counterpart not to allow migrants arriving by boat to Italy's islands to travel on to the mainland, declaring that "being saved in the Mediterranean cannot be connected with a ticket to Central Europe".

THE city of Vienna lies at the heart of this difficult but rewarding novel which was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.

Richard Collins has discivered an educational comic book with a millenia’s old story and he’s here to tell you all about it.

This week Dick Warner ponders over the paradoxical deciduous larch tree.

CRH shares surged by 5% yesterday, on the back of both a record set of yearly earnings and US president Donald Trump’s reiteration of his promise to spend $1tn on US infrastructure improvements.

Arms control is not an imperative for tranquil times but rather a tool for building — or rebuilding — trust between adversaries, write Volker Perthes and Oliver Meier

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BIRD migration is an extraordinary thing, in fact, in some cases, it verges on the unbelievable. Every autumn Aleutian bar-tailed godwits fly non-stop for nine days from Alaska to New Zealand, a distance of more than 11,000km.

Hungary’s biggest electronic music festival began this Wednesday on Central Europe’s biggest lake, Lake Balaton, and runs until this Sunday (6th to 10th July).

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy decries Brexit, claiming it is the victory of fusty England over an England open to the world and fully in touch with its glorious past.

The innovation and design of the Irish-made McHale Orbital High Speed Round Bale Wrapper was recognised at the Techagro show in Czechoslovakia with a prize, from the Farmár agricultural magazine, for its high output.

Pope Francis tempered his Easter Sunday message of Christian hope with a denunciation of “blind” terrorism, recalling victims of attacks in Europe, Africa, and elsewhere, as well as expressing dismay that people fleeing war or poverty are being denied a welcome, as European countries squabble over the refugee crisis.

A British peer and former 10 Downing St adviser to Gordon Brown, Wilf Stevenson, has just bought the West Cork home of former AIB chief executive David Duffy, Glebe House, for close to €2.5m.

Even before the Paris attacks, the mood in Central Europe was decidedly anti-migrant, with fences going up on borders, a Syrian beaten on a Polish street last week and the rhetoric sharp across the region.

Wayne Rooney opens up his life to the TV cameras for a major documentary, Rooney — The Man Behind The Goals, on BBC One on Monday.

The UN has warned that it could see no easing of the flow of refugees into Europe, with 8,000 arrivals daily, and that problems now facing governments may turn out to be only “the tip of the iceberg”.

Creating the music in the moment is what sets Paul Kalkbrenner apart from some of the globetrotting DJs he is normally lumped with, writes Ed Power

Slovan Bratislava 1 UCD 0<br>There was unkind, late heartbreak for UCD in Slovakia as they came within minutes of holding Slovan Bratislava to a remarkable scoreless draw.

Kingspan has identified Latin America as the likely next step in its ongoing geographical expansion, with a presence in both Brazil and Mexico likely to be taken over the next few years.

EUROPE has only four big meat-eating mammals. 

With oil prices on a seemingly never-ending slide, China, Europe, and, Indeed, Ireland wait to see the ramifications, writes Kyran FitzGerald.

Ireland has the capacity to become a new technology hub for central and Eastern European firms looking to access the US market, according to professional services giant, PwC.

Bayern Munich chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has urged FIFA to hold the Qatar World Cup in April 2022.

On 12th of this month we saw cattle standing knee-high in the river cooling off.

As the dust settles, Kehlan Kirwan looks at Budget 2015, and what it may mean for Irish small businesses

With more than 150,000 pilgrims expected to attend the Knock Novena, Micheal Kelly reflects on the enduring draw of the Mayo shrine.

IT’S not really until you experience Central and Eastern Europe up close that you can fully understand the cause and effects of centuries of warfare.

The author of Whatever You Love worked dead-end jobs for years prior to success, says Colette Sheridan.

Currys and PC World owner Dixons Retail is to sell a loss-making European business in the wake of its merger deal with Carphone Warehouse.