Musically inclined comedy/drama Sing Street arrived earlier in 2016 to great fanfare, kicking things off with a rapturous reception at the Sundance Film Festival.

Fine Gael will be hoping to build on the success of their 2011 election result and is introducing a number of promising new candidates into the race this time around.

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Blarney Golf Men’s Club who ran a fundraising golf classic in conjunction with the Evening Echo for journalist Deirdre O’Reilly from Bandon, Co Cork who suffered a massive stroke on December 22, 2013. 

HE has a string of hits to his name but Scottish singer-songwriter Midge Ure couldn’t be less interested in the hype about being a star. 

TIME and again, over the last few years, the powers-that-be have been well-versed on the price of everything, but on the value of nothing. With each cutback, cost-savings have been invoked. Oftentimes, a little creative accounting has been engaged to push a so-called reform that purports to be for the long-term common good.

DAMIEN O’CARROLL was living the dream in Australia until the nightmare happened.

The K Club’s Ryder Cup course has been voted the country’s top parkland course for 2014 by readers of Golfing Weekly. Its sister course at the Straffan estate, the Smurfit Course, came in at No 15.

Top civil servants in local authorities cost about €1m per council annually, despite emergency pay cuts and calls to slash the number of senior lucrative posts.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan gave a private apology to Fine Gael TDs last night for the perceived arrogance in his approach to the €100 household charge.

VOLUNTARY fund raisers who helped purchase a spinal and brain injury machine for a paralysed Co Tipperary girl have been hit with a massive VAT bill by Revenue.

CUTBACKS in health spending have resulted in older people being discriminated against, because they are the “easiest” group to deny services to, according to Age Action Ireland.

ACTING PD leader Mary Harney is pressing Senator Fiona O’Malley to contest the next general election in her native Limerick.

We were sitting around the table last night with Emily and her friends. They were all in a panic: still so many presents to organise, no time, no money...

Gardai from the National Drugs Unit in co-operation with two Dublin based drug units have seized a substantial amount of drugs in Dublin City in the Dun Laoighre/Blackrock area today.

Two people have been arrested in connection with firearms offences and are being held in custody in Dun Laoighre.