‘Croydon-sur-Seine’, read the headlines.

EMC, one of the largest private employers in Cork, is to pull a specialised team from its Ovens Centre of Excellence amid concerns over connectivity to and from the city.

The number of shoppers visiting UK stores fell for the second month in a row in May, figures show.

A kitten found sealed inside a plastic box which was hidden inside a holdall and thrown over a garden fence in England is lucky to be alive.

If we are to solve the housing crisis, the State must lever private finance but also provide adequate infrastructure, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

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Record levels of air pollution will continue to plague the UK, experts have warned.

Some of the damage from the recent floods in the UK could have been prevented if the correct water management techniques had been used, a group of experts has said.

Brad Pitt has bought his son Maddox a motorbike for his 11th birthday.

Rangers fans have been told they will not be able to buy season tickets via direct debit.

RECOVERY in the property market? A bit like Kildare footballers, and Waterford hurlers, it’s a case of dragging out the cliche: “Maybe next year.”

By Katharine McMahon

A severely depressed young woman who stepped in front of a train left a suicide note complaining of how an anti-acne drug left her feeling physically aged, her family said today.

AN Irish-owned London based civil engineering company has won a €100 million contract to work on the M25 widening programme around Greater London, it emerged yesterday.

An Irish-owned civil engineering company has secured a €100m contract to work on the M25 widening programme around Greater London, it emerged today.

Here is the full text of Boris Johnson’s acceptance speech after winning election to the office of Mayor of London:

A new bluetongue protection zone has been set up after a new case of the disease was discovered in Greater London, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said today.

A surveillance zone has been put in place to monitor bluetongue after a second animal was found to have contracted the disease at the British farm where the UK's first case of the disease was discovered.

The row over Jose Mourinho’s pet dog that resulted in the football manager’s arrest has been resolved “to the satisfaction of all parties”.

The North now has one of the best performing regional economies in the UK, it was disclosed today.

The Co-operative Group expanded its funeralcare operations today after securing majority control of the UK’s fourth-largest player.

British Energy said today it was extending the life of its Kent nuclear power station by 10 years in a move that stoked up the debate on the future of atomic energy in the UK.

Northern Ireland is just one of two UK regions where annual house price inflation is still in double figures, a new report revealed today.

IN an unprecedented move, the British Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has acted to reverse the €88.7 million off-loading by Independent News & Media of its regional titles in the London area.

The average UK house now costs more than £150,000 (€225,210) and has seen an 18.5% year-on-year rise as another survey found little evidence of a slowdown in the housing market, despite higher borrowing costs.

IRISH property investment vehicle Tiger Developments is earning its stripes in Britain, with €100 million in recent acquisitions.

INDEPENDENT News and Media has been forbidden by the British Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) from selling eight of its regional newspaper titles in the London area to US publishers Gannett.

David Blaine is spending his first full day suspended in a clear plastic box with nothing but water to sustain him in his toughest endurance challenge yet.

American illusionist David Blaine started his toughest endurance challenge yet tonight – spending 44 days and nights suspended in a clear plastic box with nothing but water to sustain him.

HOUSE prices in England and Wales increased at the slowest pace in more than a year in the second quarter as sales declined, figures released yesterday show.

The Irish property market took its product to Britain this weekend in a bid to entice more sterling buyers to join a growing trek to Ireland.

Two more men have been arrested following the discovery of an arsenal of weapons at a house in Essex.