It welcomes the opening today of a new sustainable café concept, Blue Bird Coffee Roasters.

Esther N McCarthy refects on mirror designs and shares good news for coffee connoisseurs.

In the rapidly expanding domain of global cyber security breaches, 2017 set a new bar for computer network attacks.

Facebook is so good at ‘microtargeting’ that many e-commerce start-ups barely even bother advertising anywhere else — a shift with frightening implications for companies and consumers alike. Burt Helm reports

They didn’t need to win a first county senior title for Harry Gleeson to be told his Adare footballers were in bonus territory. He’s had those words ringing in his ears since the middle of last summer.

Shares fell more than 2% in Applegreen as the fuel and forecourt operator raised almost €47m in a placing of more than eight million shares — around 10% of the firm’s issued prior share capital prior to the placing.

Police in Colombia are investigating the murder of a Dublin man.

Fuel forecourt retailer Applegreen has said Ireland and Britain remain its key focus despite acquiring 42 new petrol stations and Burger King outlets in the US, a move that significantly ramps up its US operations.

Elizabeth Thomas disappeared from her home near Columbia on March 13.

The discovery of 75kg of cocaine along the Clare coastline is thought to be the first known seizure of a so-called ‘narco-torpedo’ in Ireland.

Hurricane Matthew has gone from the US, but the disaster its rains unleashed will be felt throughout the week as rivers across eastern North Carolina rise to levels unseen since Hurricane Floyd struck in 1999.

A strengthening Hurricane Matthew is steaming towards Florida with winds of 140mph as hundreds of thousands of people board up their homes and flee inland to escape the most powerful storm to threaten the Atlantic coast in more than a decade.

Narcos is back, with the entire second season ready to watch on Netflix around the world now.

US riot officers arrested dozens of people in Louisiana’s capital Baton Rouge during protests over the killings of black people by police. 

Narcos is Pablo Escobar series on Netflix which you might have missed last year. But don't worry, there's more to come and plenty of time to catch up.

An award-winning balloon artist, who suffered whiplash and lower back injuries in a rear-ending crash, has been awarded more than €22,500 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

An eminent US surgeon suffering from early-onset dementia who fell victim to a phishing scam which culminated in him bringing €100,000 of cocaine into Dublin Airport will be sentenced next week.

A €24m surge in the value of weapons and military items exported to foreign countries has prompted concern about Ireland sending goods to nations with poor human rights records.

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A dangerous rainstorm drenching the US East Coast has brought more misery to South Carolina – cutting power to thousands, forcing hundreds of water rescues and closing many roads because of floodwater.

PlayStation 4 and Xbox One owners may soon be able to journey to BioShock’s Rapture and Columbia. Details have emerged about The BioShock Collection, which is listed for release on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in November.

The scale of the illegal drugs business, the violence, the complicity of bankers in laundering money and the absolute power of the drug barons is beyond comprehension. Cormac O’Keeffe on an escalating world crisis.

In a time when racial tensions are higher than ever in South Carolina this picture shows that humanity can see through hatred.

The Supreme Court has declared that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the US.

Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has praised his old club for getting ahead of the game in the transfer market as a sixth summer signing edges closer in the form of Southampton’s Nathaniel Clyne.

Jimmy Crowley’s book on the songs of Cork is the latest instalment in his longterm love affair with the culture of his hometown, writes Dan Buckley

South Carolina politicians planned to introduce a resolution last night to begin a debate on removing the Confederate flag from the State House grounds following the killings last week of nine black churchgoers allegedly by a white gunman.

ZIMBABWE: Harare resident Alice Mhandara spent a US dollar to take the bus into town to answer the government call to trade in her old Zimbabwe dollars, but she left the bank in disgust when her 90 trillion in old currency wouldn’t even cover the bus ticket home.

USA: Two women who took a writing class at Columbia University found that their own stories were better than fiction.

The discovery of a huge haul of cocaine at Cork Port directly imported from Central America again raises concerns regarding the shipment of massive consignments to Ireland and through Irish waters for the local and British markets.

The Bioshock series from Irrational Games and 2K is one of the deepest darkest worlds you can find on consoles, throwing you into an alternative history and seeing you dealing with the consequences of some really screwed up stuff.

DURING the turbulent election campaign of 2011 I wrote about the possibility of Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness being elected as the President of Ireland, writes Alison O’Connor

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Journalist and author Gay Talese has been setting the standard for writers on and off the page for almost 50 year

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A secretive tree-living carnivore from the cloud forests of the Andes heads this year’s top 10 list of newly discovered species.

Ireland has a higher homicide rate than most of our European neighbours, according to a UN report.

Minimum alcohol pricing would reduce drink-fuelled crime in Ireland and save a life every day, an addiction expert has claimed.

Santiago Mendoza is just eight months old but weighs as much as the average six-year-old.

What makes Michael Sam so important to the gay rights movement is that he will be bringing their cause into a forbidden zone.