The Irish nominees are Geraldine King, Anne Heraty, Shona McManus and Rosaleen Blair

Ryanair has announced extra flights to Warsaw Modlin in Poland from Dublin.

A study by The New York Times of CAP farm subsidies in central and eastern Europe has uncovered eye-watering abuse.

Progressive farming of goats could be a surprising method of combating climate change, writes Sabine Homann-Kee Tui

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Beef and dairy farmers have taken the Ireland Southern NUTS2 region to No 1 in Europe.

Stripe, the €19.8bn-valued online payments company founded by Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison, is set to expand into eight European countries, primarily on the eastern side of the continent.

The current Trump administration is the most hostile to immigrants in recent US history, writes Dr Piaras Mac Éinrí.

Last Friday, the Ukrainian show jumping team contested a Tokyo 2020 qualifier in Budapest and amassed a total of 41 faults.

Plants that conjure up the otherworldly beings in their name are the ones to watch, says Fiann Ó Nualláin.

Providence Resources shares plummeted by more than 20% on the back of a further delay to planned drilling at the company's flagship Barryroe oil and gas field off the Cork coast.

After months of polling, speculation, and hand wringing over the European Parliament election this month, one might think that nothing else matters, writes Carl Bildt.

Dozens of key construction jobs are currently ineligible to non-nationals — despite thousands being needed to meet building demands.

State-owned airport operator DAA has tabled bids for the running of a number of international airports, after having seen a successful first full year operating part of the King Khaled International Airport (KKIA) in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh.

Geoff Percival International hotel chain, Vienna House, is considering a move into the Irish market. It is taking on alternative accommodation providers, such as Airbnb.

Ryanair rival budget airline Wizz Air, which has withstood the pressures in the aviation sector better than many of its rivals, said it would offer new routes from London’s Luton airport to Cyprus, Slovakia, Estonia, Ukraine and Albania.

We owe it to all of those who suffered under past authoritarian regimes to stand up now, writes Guy Verhofstadt

UN human rights investigators have warned of ethnic cleansing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, documenting the recent killings of more than 250 people, including 62 children.

Peter Dowdall says the West Cork Garden Trail offers inspiring examples of community work

The US president is in Poland this week, where his brand of populism is welcome, as it is in Hungary, but we must not allow him to play eastern and western Europe against each other, says Guy Verhofstadt.

French President Emmanuel Macron has promoted his pro-European views in a series of meetings with leaders of The Netherlands, Spain and Estonia in Paris, with Brexit negotiations due to start next week.

Shares in Dublin-based agri-services group Origin Enterprises dipped yesterday after it said sterling’s weakness versus the euro impacted on its seasonally important third quarter revenues.

Launched in 1998 as a small but perfectly formed vehicle for the masses, the Focus was an immediate success, being named European Car of the Year.

A 22-year old suicide bomber born in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan was behind a blast on the St Petersburg subway that killed 14 people, Russian investigators have said.

Irish people raised €7.6m for Trócaire during Lent last year.

Shares in CPL Resources closed over 1.5% higher as the recruitment firm said sales and profits continued to grow despite uncertainties caused by the UK’s Brexit vote.

Met Éireann is forecasting Arctic conditions for the middle of this week which could see sleet and snow in places.

Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega has been re-elected, setting the stage for his third consecutive term - but this time accompanied by his wife as vice president.

A unique conservation effort in Afghanistan has helped bring the elusive snow leopard back from the brink and given hope to one of the poorest and most isolated communities on earth.

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The incident happened during a wildlife show in the Alice Springs Desert Park.

An eagle tried to carry away a small child during a popular wildlife show in central Australia.

This print of Yachts of the water club of the Harbour, Cork is at Lynes and Lynes on July 16.

An Eritrean man suspected of running a human trafficking network that sent thousands of migrants to Europe, leaving many to die on the way, has been extradited from Sudan to Italy, officials said.

US adventurer and animal enthusiast Coyote Peterson captured an amazing moment while trekking through the jungle in Costa Rica.

People are plumping up at such a rate that by 2025 roughly a fifth of the human race will be obese, experts have warned.

Seventy years after his speech on the Cold War, Churchill’s words still linger writes Geoffrey Roberts.

175 new jobs have been announced for County Galway.