Nation’s automobile industry plans to cut up to 83,000 jobs over the next decade as workers trying to avoid forced layoffs, writes Michael Nienaber

In advance of her appearance at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, Ellie O'Byrne chats to Motown legend Martha Reeves

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Body & Soul have announced its lineup for 2019's Electric Picnic in Stradbally Hall, Co Laois this summer.

Rising hip-hop and R&B songstress Lizzo's ‘Cuz I Love You Too’ European tour is coming to Dublin.

Such is the bond between the two Ryder Cup veterans, Ian Poulter needed little persuasion from tournament host Paul McGinley to commit to this week’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.

Seamus Power’s track record with Lahinch and the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open is mixed, but the PGA Tour professional was still thrilled to receive his invitation to return home and play this week.

Andy Lee says a return to boxing’s frontline was too hard to turn down because he believes new protege Paddy Donovan has all the ingredients to win a world title.

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US-Italian car maker Fiat Chrysler has made an all-share merger proposal to French rival Renault as part of a new wave of consolidation in the car industry.

The United States is seeking to extradite a young Irish man accused of being part of a hacking group known as “The Community” involved in alleged financial fraud and identity theft.

In the last decade, thanks to YouTube, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) has grown from a hard-to-describe psychological oddity into a mass cultural phenomenon, writes Jamie Lauren Keiles

To those with religious belief, faith — the idea, the commitment — may remain a mystery but one that is nonetheless enthusiastically and sincerely embraced.

Andy Lee this year called time on his ground-breaking, 39-fight career which ultimately gleaned the world middleweight title but he is never too far from the sport which enveloped his life for the best part of three decades. This weekend, the Limerick man is in Los Angeles as his long-time friend Tyson Fury challenges bookmakers’ favourite Deontay Wilder for the WBC heavyweight title and Lee is not ruling out an upset, writes Declan Taylor

We’ll also take a look at why things are looking prickly for Ireland's hedgehogs, and there’ll be music from The Blizzards and Phil Coulter.

Aretha Franklin has died at her home in Detroit, according to her publicist.

“This is exclusive, and heart breaking for me and for the family and friends of the great Aretha Franklin. She is gravely ill in Detroit. The family is asking for prayers and privacy”

July’s beauty launches includes curl-powered mascara, a citrus and sea-scented shower oil and an homage to Aaliyah. Rachel Marie Walsh reports.

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Truck drivers in Detroit in the US are being hailed as heroes after they assisted Michigan State Police to help a man who was contemplating taking his own life.

Fiann O Nualláin identifies the veggie varieties best suited to our climate.

Latest: US police are searching for a young man suspected of killing two people at a central Michigan University residence hall on the same day parents were arriving to pick up students beginning their spring break.

A shift to self-driving cars will mean rather than depending on other drivers to compensate for our mistakes, we'll depend on engineers to make fewer of them, writes Stephen M Zoepf

A 39-year-old woman is accused of pulling a knife on another woman during a brawl at a Christmas toy giveaway in Detroit.

The US House of Representatives has easily approved a bipartisan measure requiring politicians and staff to take annual anti-harassment training.

All flights arriving in the US are to be subject to new security screening procedures, with American citizens as well as foreigners possibly facing interviews by airline employees.

No steering wheel, accelerator pedal or brake pedal... robot motoring is getting closer as technology makes giant strides

General Motors workers went on strike at a Canadian plant for the first time in 21 years over jobs lost to Mexico, with the union’s president calling the situation “the poster child for what’s wrong with Nafta”.

Before he lays out his plans for Ford Motor to Wall St analysts and investors, new chief executive Jim Hackett is going to share his vision for the carmaker with leaders of its workers’ union.

When he agreed to appear as a racist cop in the tale of 1967 in Detroit,

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Opel has been having a hard time of it over the last decade or so.

General Motors and Japan’s Softbank are among the latest investors in Nauto, a Silicon Valley start-up developing software for self-driving vehicles.

Aimie Mallon, from just outside Navan, Co Meath, now based in Dublin, is one half of dance band, Le Boom, alongside Chris Leech. 

Air bag maker Takata has filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan and the US, overwhelmed by lawsuits and recall costs over defective air bag inflators linked to the deaths of at least 16 people.

When Colm Cronin hopped, skipped and jumped 15.89 meters on June 26th 1977, little did the Leevale man realise his Irish triple jump record would remain peerless some 40 years later.

Caribbean-born writer Sheena Kamal went on a journey from acting to stuntwoman before she decided to write. She talks to Sue Leonard.

The US government is suing Fiat Chrysler, alleging that some diesel pick-up trucks and Jeep SUVs cheat on emissions tests.

O’Grady’s Irish bar rests on the High Road in Seven Kings near Dagenham.

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