Thirty Pacific salmon have been found in nine Irish river systems since the first one was recorded in late June.

Erica Stoll may have got golf star Rory McIlroy to the tee on time but now she must rely on someone else to make sure he gets to his wedding on time.

Excitement is building in the Mayo village of Cong as it braces for the wedding of the year when Rory McIlroy and Erica Stoll tie the knot at Ashford Castle next weekend.

More than 120 volunteers converged on the tiny village of Aughleam near Blacksod Bay in Co Mayo yesterday to assist in the search for the crew members of the ill-fated helicopter R116.

From zip-lining to horse riding, the scene is set for family fun, Esther N McCarthy lived it up like a movie star at Ashford Castle.

Want to stay closer to home for Valentines? There are plenty of options, writes Ciara McDonnell. 

Killarney Park Hotel finished first in the luxury hotel category, while Pax Guest House in Dingle topped Ireland’s B&B list, as well as placing 15th in Europe.

Maureen O’Hara’s legacy as one of the most famous stars of Hollywood’s golden era has been further cemented, after an auction of the late actress’s personal belongings sold for almost €420,000.

The North's only representative in the search for The Restaurants Association of Ireland's Foodie Destination of the Year received a massive shot in the arm recently with ringing endorsements from a multi award winning Michelin starred chef and a Coronation Street favourite.

A spectacular tree-lined avenue which provided one of the backdrops for the hit fantasy drama Game of Thrones has fallen victim to Storm Gertrude.

It has finally been announced and a select few hotels are celebrating in style after being named in Tripadvisors Top 25 Travellers’ Choice hotels in Ireland for 2016.

It’s the little things about Ashford Castle that makes a stay there so enjoyable, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.    

For generations the Irish Examiner has recorded the major events in the life of our nation, tracking its triumphs and disasters since the newspaper was first launched in 1841.

Ireland have stuttered over the line against the Azzurri but more intriguing is people are grumbling after a win over France

Des O’Sullivan reports on the auction of Ashford Castle contents.

ROZ Purcell, 24, from Fethard, Co Tipperary, was Miss Universe Ireland 2010 and is also a food columnist and blogger, as well as running her clothing label, Scribe by Roz.

Dan Buckley enjoys the royal sport of falconry and takes in the sights of the majestic Corrib at the Lodge at Ashford Castle.

Irish hotel resorts have taken the top two places and feature in nine of Europe’s 20 best in the latest survey by Condé Nast Traveler magazine.

ESB Networks is working to restore power to over 70,000 customers whose electricity supplies were disrupted as a result of last night’s storms.

Joe Dermody and family enjoyed some relaxation time at Lisloughrey Lodge in Mayo.

TWO years ago Maureen O’Hara checked into the Ashford Castle hotel to stay in the room she called home during the filming of The Quiet Man.

A Quiet Man festival is launching an X Factor-style search for Ireland’s bestMichaeleen Flynn lookalike.

The distraught mother of teen Andrew Clarke has revealed how she “willed him to live” as she rode with him in the ambulance to Tallaght Hospital.

While the rest of us are opening presents and tucking into turkey, others find themselves goosed, having to report for duty. Dan Buckley talks to those who work on Christmas Day.

Hollywood director Martin Scorsese has dubbed the famous clinch between Maureen O’Hara and John Wayne in The Quiet Man as one of the best onscreen kisses in cinematic history.

BOTH the Parknasilla Hotel and the Cork International Airport Hotel have overseas buyers, the first in legals, the second sold to Phillips Hotels Ltd for approximately €5m. So Savills’ successful run of sales shows it’s not just the Dublin hotel market (where the 500 bed Burlington’s selling for €70 m to the private equity group Blackstone) that’s attracting investors.

It has gone to wrack and ruin, having been neglected for 27 years.

Tourism chiefs in a Co Mayo village have unveiled ambitious plans to lure thousands of film fans by creating Ireland’s answer to Hollywood’s walk of fame.

Enda Kenny’s Fine Gael took four seats in Mayo in the last election.

Gardaí have arrested a number of people in Cork and Mayo following a violent bank holiday weekend which saw two men stabbed in unrelated incidents in Cork and a man shot dead in Mayo.

IT’S squeaky bum time in LA.

IT will be “business as normal” at the five-star Ashford Castle Hotel, receivers appointed to the leading European hotel said yesterday.

Receivers have been appointed to Ashford Castle Hotel in Co. Mayo.

THERE’S no easy way to say this, so let’s just get it over with.

THE pretty Mayo town of Westport must be close to rivalling Galway as one of Ireland’s top trendy weekend destinations.

A REUNION of the original cast of The Quiet Man takes place next month with the arrival of John Wayne’s family in Ireland.

SCREEN legend Maureen O’Hara has made an emotional return to Cong — 60 years after she first set foot there to film The Quiet Man.

TOURISM chiefs in Cong have predicted their biggest windfall ever next weekend, as 4,000 film fans flock to meet screen legend Maureen O’Hara at the 60th anniversary celebrations of The Quiet Man.

SIXTY years ago, during the sun-splashed summer of 1951, the first of the trucks that would change Cong forever rumbled into town.

GALWAY defender Finian Hanley is confident the future is bright for the Tribesmen despite the troubles encountered in the opening weeks of the football league.

AFTER leading the race through his home town of Cong, David O’Loughlin (An Post/Sean Kelly), supplied the perfect finishing touch to the third stage of the FBD Insurance Rás when he outsprinted defending champion, Simon Richardson (Sigma Sport Specialised).

Mayoman David O’Loughlin crowned one of the highlights of his career with a stunning stage win in the FBD Insurance Rás into Oughterard, Co Galway today.

THE stars strutted their stuff all through the weekend and, God love me, I cannot resist the linkage between the excitement of the red carpeted Oscars in Hollywood and the electric spills of the hurling and football productions on the green carpets of the Four Green Fields.