With all rugby matches cancelled due to the coronavirus crisis, you’d expect Ireland’s James Ryan to kick back a little, to ease up on his training, but the star player is not about to lose his renowned laser focus, writes Irene Feighan.

Joe McNamee shares some upcoming food events

The spotlight will fall on two Munster architects in a new showcase this year.

From the best bread to the best dairy, these awards have the cream of the crop.

They have been taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, where their injuries are described as non-life threatening.

The Mental Health Commission has identified one critical and five high-risk non-compliance ratings at two of the country’s in-patient mental health units.

Fears have been expressed that a tourist town's best asset could be washed away.

Fexco is opening the €21m facility in Killorglin on a site that was closed down in 2012.

Raiders targeted the Bank of Ireland on Main St in Dunleer in the early hours of this morning.

A Year 10 pupil was treated in hospital for non-life threatening injuries following an incident at Larne Grammar School on Tuesday.

It could be called money for old rope. Enterprising people are being urged to look at ways of turning abandoned fishing nets into useful products.

State papers show a senior official has sought an undertaking from Mr Goodman as the chief executive of AIBP in January 1989 that there would be no further false declarations as well as an explanation for such breaches.

The spirit of Christmas is alive and well after a community rallied around a Cork family who lost everything in a devastating house fire the week before the big day.

This week Mick Clifford speaks to London Irish voice, Ray O'Rourke and Ray Godson.

Pre-tax profits at the Lyrath Estate Hotel in Co Kilkenny last year increased by 67% to €834,979. Newly-filed accounts for Lyrath Demesne Ltd show revenues increased by 8.5% to €12.7m.

Cork is to get just 14 of the latest garda probationers to graduate from the force’s training college.

Caroline Delaney is impressed with this well-laid-out semi-detached bungalow in Cloyne, Co Cork

Strandhill was announced as the winner of the European Destination of Excellence (EDEN) at an event at the Sligo Park Hotel this afternoon.

IT WAS written about an old ruin in Co Wexford but it may as well have been written for any other place.

Marion Roeleveld of Killeen Farmhouse Cheese was named the Supreme Champion at the biennial Cáis Irish Cheese Awards presented in Cork recently.

Thursday, November 28, will be Ireland’s first-ever Animal Health Awareness Day.

Meet Dougal.

Cork County Council bosses have said they won't pay for the setting up of 'reverse vending machines,' despite calls from many county councillors for them to do so.

Representatives of Ballinamore Community Group claimed the Minister of State at Department of Justice and Equality David Stanton agreed to pause plans to accommodate asylum seekers in the town.

An animal charity has slammed the level of cruelty in the country after a pony had to be destroyed due to what they believe were several savage beatings inflicted over several days and weeks.

Sexual politics, snideput-downs and family rivalries are fuelling the trouble brewing in a small Midlands town.

Detectives investigating alleged mistreatment of vulnerable patients at Muckamore Abbey Hospital have arrested a man.

In addition to the €495,187 spent by Fáilte Ireland, Clare County Council oversaw a spend of €4m on upgrading the resort, which included an outlay of €550,000 on new public toilets.

Gardaí have confirmed that the body of Frankie Devlin has been recovered.

A 56-year-old man appeared at Cork District Court yesterday charged with eight counts of stealing medication at St Catherine’s unit of the Mercy University Hospital over a five-month period last year.

The vehicle was travelling along the Antrim Road near the Co-Op shop at around midday on Thursday.

Macroom and Carlow Local Electoral Areas will become the latest rent pressure zones from today amid warnings that current levels of rent inflation are “not sustainable”.

Rotten by name but certainly not by nature.

As a part of Scéal: A story of Irish Design, Kilkenny welcomes recent jewellery design graduates from the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI) Jewellery and Goldsmithing Course in Co Kilkenny to find Ireland’s best emerging jewellery designer in it’s ‘From Bench to Business’ programme.

The Jack and Jill Foundation help Tracy with 50 hours nursing a month to give her a little break from the round-the-clock care that Willow needs.

Late last month Slaney Foods International unlimited Company secured injunctions against persons it claimed had been blockading its premises at Ryland Lower, Bunclody Co Wexford.