Oonagh Kearney is a film-maker from Ballintemple in Cork. A former pupil of the Ursuline Convent in Blackrock, she also studied at the National Film and Television School in London. Her latest short film, the 24-minute Five Letters to the Stranger who will Dissect my Brain, shows as part of the ‘Best of Cork’ presentation at Cork Film Festival on Sunday, Nov 18, at the Everyman.

Tongue firmly in cheek, Pat Fitzpatrick presents his travel glossary. Read on for what those shiny brochures are really trying to tell you...

Back in the worst days of the recession, Irish people took solace in the knowledge that ‘there’s always someone worse off’. That ‘someone’ was Greece.

A mother who describes herself as a “nobody” believes passionately that her teenage son will be a “somebody” when he becomes a professional cellist.

Looking for a holiday with a difference? Award-winning travel writer Isabel Conway rounds up the hottest travel trends and destinations for the year ahead.

A businessman held by kidnappers for six months on the Greek island of Crete has been rescued by police.

The Irish teenager who drowned in Crete has been named as Laura Dempsey, writes Joyce Fegan.

The Irish teenager who drowned in Crete has been named as Laura Dempsey.

Latest: A school in County Wicklow has described the death of one of its students as "devastating".

An Irish teenage girl has drowned on the Greek island of Crete.

Domenikos Theotokopoulos, from Crete, was known as ‘El Greco’ in Toledo. Now another Greek shares the famous nickname: ‘El Graeco’ is short for Graecopithecus freybergi. The dental records of this ape-like pre-human, who lived in the Eastern Mediterranean area, have put the cat among the anthropological pigeons. 

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The head of the Irish Innocence Project has criticised the Greek justice system after a Carlow woman’s husband who is fighting to clear his name of crimes independent evidence shows he did not commit was prevented from attending his own appeal hearing in that country.

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Patrick Leigh Fermor died five years ago this month, aged 96, and though he claimed to be part Irish, he was a man of the world, who walked from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul in his teens, and who later became a great travel writer, says Michael Duggan

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Two Irish students will find out this Friday if they have won the prestigious James Dyson award.

Inventions from two Irish students have made the shortlist for this year’s prestigious James Dyson award.

A student from the University of Limerick has been making waves with his latest invention — a lightweight, underwater breathing system designed to make life easier for snorkelers and diving enthusiasts.

Highly populated coastal areas of Greece and Italy would be inundated if a moderately powerful earthquake in the Mediterranean triggered a tsunami, research has shown.

 

Down south there’s a new attraction in Dublin revolving around whiskey. 

Jeremy Hutchinson is one of those people who changed the world they were born into. Dan Buckley on a sparkling career and a wonderful man still going strong at 100.

A Carlow woman who has been fighting to free her husband from a Greek jail in a campaign backed by the Irish Innocence Project has finally received some good news after their five-year ordeal.

ENGLAND: A fox cub has undergone a delicate procedure to remove a plastic tub which became stuck round its neck in a seaside town.

After exonerating Harry Gleeson, a Tipperary man wrongfully executed for a murder he did not commit, members of the Irish Innocence Project are working to prove more miscarriages of justice.

A Dublin man who broke an off duty garda’s nose at a Swedish House Mafia gig at the Phoenix Park has received a suspended sentence of three years.

What's on the tellybox tonight? These gems, for starters.

Local authorities and Red Cross volunteers on Crete are racing to prepare shelter and food for hundreds of immigrants on a crippled freighter being towed to safety by a Greek navy frigate.

CORK-BORN singer John Spillane recently released his new album, The Man Who Came In From The Dark. He also presents Spillane an Fanaí (Spillane The Wanderer), every Tuesday on TG4 at 10pm.

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.

A musician who died along with his partner as he tried to save him from drowning has been remembered as a talented and treasured colleague.

The bodies of an Irish couple who drowned off the coast of Crete while on holiday are expected to be flown home in the coming days.

The Department of Foreign Affairs is providing consular assistance to the family of two men who drowned on the Greek island of Crete.

An earthquake which rattled southern Greece today was widely felt in the capital Athens.