Covid-19 will usher in a new era where work from home is an increasing part of people’s regular schedule.

In 1910, Mary Ryan became Professor of romance languages at University College Cork, becoming the first female Professor in Ireland. Timothy O’Connor remembers a trailblazer in education.

Every year, teachers across the country are invited to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge. Every year, I respectfully opt out.

We all have a healthy curiosity about how others live. It’s just one of the reasons we love to pore over property and interiors spreads — that peek behind someone else’s front door is just irresistible.

The epic battle for the bridge at Arnhem, as depicted in the blockbuster 'A Bridge Too Far', saw the Allies aim to end the war by Christmas 1944, but failed as a huge airborne assault force failed to take the last bridge across the Rhine. In an extract from his latest book 'A Bloody Week', Dan Harvey tells the story of one of the hundreds of brave men from Ireland who gave their all to the Allied campaign

Australian composer and violist Brett Dean plays in Cork and other Irish centres, writes Cathy Desmond

Dalata Hotel Group shares surged by nearly 9% after it expressed confidence in riding out continued Brexit uncertainty and the effects of the higher Vat rate on the domestic tourism and hospitality sector.

The CAO will place all offers live on cao.ie on Thursday, August 15, from 2pm.

The good news from Berlin is that the city has taken the fate of the bee — threatened yet crucial to the survival of civilisation as we know it — to its heart.

A German couple saw a Trinity College Dublin (TCD) student take "lots of selfies" at the cliff edge moments before he fell to his death at the Cliffs of Moher in January.

European car registrations fell sharply in June, resuming a downward spiral this year that has seen profit warnings at German manufacturer Daimler and a quarterly division loss at rival BMW.

HALF of Europe has been slammed by a massive heat wave in recent weeks, with many regions experiencing temperatures never before seen in June. But it may just be the beginning, says Marco Evers.

Tanaiste Simon Coveney claimed investors and landlords here would leave the market and the solution to spiralling rents was increasing the supply of properties.

Premier Inn owner Whitbread has revealed a sharp drop in UK sales as Brexit uncertainty continues to take its toll on business travel.

A huge decline in farmland birds in Europe is believed to be mirrored here. Another reason, perhaps, why so many extra voters turned to the Green party in the local and European elections.

It may seem a world away from the stuffy offices of EU Headquarters in Brussels but the results of the Brexit referendum all the way back in 2016 are being felt on the Main Avenue at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in Central London this week.

The Dalata Hotel Group intends to have a presence in Germany within the next five years.

So that’s Thursday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

On its 75th anniversary of the American Note, in a two-day report Ryle Dwyer examines events leading to the international distortion of Ireland’s role in WWII

The fuss and furore these winter days over the increasingly likely prospect of a hard border around the neck of this little island fascinates me lately.

Search efforts are continuing for survivors and for more victims.

Here's your afternoon bulletin.

A ritual of summer motoring in Ireland used to be fairly regular stops to clean windscreens of huge numbers of dead insects.

The FAI were making no comment yesterday on Sepp Blatter’s suggestion that the UK and Ireland could jointly host the 2030 World Cup.

Last week my work took me to the very rural part of the southern regions of the Netherlands, close to the German border.

Not many men can claim to have helped impregnate a gorilla or to have delivered a primate by caesarean section, but David Cahill’s CV is fairly unique, even in the radical world of fertility medicine.

The growing demand for Irish gin is not expected to slow down as the Alcohol Beverage Federation of Ireland (ABFI) predict exports are set to rise significantly this year.

A German court has rejected the appeal of a former Auschwitz guard against serving his sentence on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder.

At a moment when the liberal values that have done so much to advance Western societies over the last 75 years are threatened on so many fronts the difficulties facing chancellor Angela Merkel have implications far beyond German or European borders.

Irish firms have been urged to restrict their employees from downloading software updates from their workstations following the latest global ransomware attack that is sweeping Europe.

Confidence among tourism businesses here is at its lowest in four years as concerns over Brexit begin to bite.

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

New Chief Justice Frank Clarke has waded into the row over judicial appointments by criticising the Government’s planned new rules as “not ideal” and being “of concern” to judges.

France's President Emmanuel Macron has proposed a joint budget for countries sharing the euro currency.

Most of my childhood photos are of me lying unconscious in the most unlikely of places, mouth agape, drooling unattractively, writes Louise O’Neill.

The recent release of new economic growth measures has again prompted a debate on regional — from which we can generally read urban versus rural — development in Ireland.

British airline Easyjet is set to win unconditional EU competition approval to buy parts of failed German peer Air Berlin, say sources.

A man suspected of wounding five people with a chainsaw is still on the loose as a manhunt continues on the Swiss-German border.

It is “too early” to tell how many Irish vehicles will be affected by the recall of some 3m Mercedes cars and vans across Europe.

Two giant pandas have received a celebrity welcome in Berlin from the mayor and Chinese ambassador after they weathered a long flight from China.

Shares in Cuisine de France owner Aryzta fell by nearly 9% yesterday on the back of the group reporting flat quarterly underlying revenues and a fall in business in North America.

Simon Davis takes to the wheel of BMW’s new 322bhp coupe

Not for the first time, Ireland looks like it will be centre-stage at this weekend’s meeting of European leaders in Brussels, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell.