Aileen Lee Aileen Lee chats to Amanda Vencatasamy, co-founder of Hey, Bulldog! Design.

Record numbers are visiting the country’s leading tourist attractions such as the Guinness Storehouse and the Cliffs of Moher.

Irish ports will have their busiest ever cruise ship season in 2017 with over 300 vessels scheduled to visit ports and harbours around the country, writes John Daly.

With 2016 having one extra second on the clock there are dozens of ways to ring in the New Year around the country.

Dublin’s Spire acts like a super-sized ‘Google Maps’ pin to locate this compact Dublin city centre hotel on O’Connell Street, one which had housed five homeless families until they were rehomed in late July.

Plans have been drawn up for a €6.25m second phase of development at Spike Island in Cork harbour which, it is hoped, will drive visitor numbers there to 100,000 per year by 2020.

The capital’s streets went into lockdown yesterday for the centenary parade, but tourists were still able to make their way to the city’s top attractions.

A nation will shed one giant tear come October when Paul O’Connell peels off an Ireland jersey for the last time, but the legendary lock is refusing to engage in the emotional build-up ahead of the Rugby World Cup that will bring the curtain down on his international career.

YouTube vlogger Alfie Deyes visited Dublin this weekend as part of the book tour for his second book, ‘The Pointless Book 2’.

Facts continue their tradition of ambushing tourists outside the Guinness Storehouse, making them read things off a piece of paper - this time, in their best attempt at an Irish accent - and then filming it for our amusement.

The gang over at Facts. accosted some unsuspecting tourists near the Guinness Storehouse and asked them to try wrap their brains and tongues around our native language.

ROBBIE Keane may be big news in the United States these days, but the Republic of Ireland captain will be treated like a king upon returning to Tallaght today. 

For the next three days, Dublin is the online capital of the world, as hundreds of tech experts take to the podium for this year’s Web Summit.

With a host of big-name speakers already announced, organisers of the Web Summit hinted a few last minute surprises are on the cards.

After five days of touring some of the country’s most famous tourist landmarks, this year’s crop of Roses finally planted themselves in the home of the world renowned competition, Tralee.

The increased ferocity and intensity of storms that battered the Irish coast in recent days can be attributed to man-made climate change, says one of the country’s foremost experts on climate change.

The importance of a strong indigenous malting barley industry was highlighted yesterday at an awards ceremony for growers in the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin.

The son of Irish emigrants, John Brennan was this week announced as Obama’s choice to head up the CIA. Caroline O’Doherty investigates

THE path looks clear for Cork’s new €150 million concert venue to proceed in the city centre as developer Owen O’Callaghan is ending his rival bid for a docklands venue.

QUEEN ELIZABETH last night offered her “sincere thoughts and deep sympathies” to those who have suffered due to the troubled past of Britain and Ireland — but stopped short of an apology.

The Queen bowed her head and laid a wreath at Dublin's Garden of Remembrance today in a hugely symbolic and historic act of reconciliation between Britain and the Republic of Ireland.

The Queen sets foot on Irish soil today for the start of a historic state visit which will herald a new era in relations between Britain and the Republic of Ireland.

The British Queen’s visit will represent an extraordinary moment in the history of the island, President Mary McAleese has said.

Final preparations are under way for the British Queen’s historic four-day visit to the country which begins tomorrow.

THE GAA authorities have invited several high-profile footballers and hurlers to a function in Croke Park to meet Queen Elizabeth on her visit to Ireland.

The Queen should be asked to pay for “bed and breakfast” to cushion the cost of her State visit on hard-pressed Irish taxpayers, it has been claimed.

BRITAIN’S Queen Elizabeth is scheduled to visit the Rock of Cashel, and the Irish National Stud and confirmation of her intention to visit Cork will provide a welcome boost for some of the country’s most celebrated tourist attractions.

Ireland's largest public transport event is taking place at the RDS in Dublin today.

IT may be a marketing gimmick but Arthur’s Day came at a time yesterday when the country really needed a pint.

BEANIES and bling are not a grand-mother “thing” but then neither is rap or hip hop – unless it’s a granny with fire in her belly who’s undergone a successful hip op.

Millions of revellers will raise pints of the world’s most famous stout today to toast the birth of Guinness.

The Guinness Storehouse in Dublin is Ireland's top fee-paying tourist attraction, with over 1 million visitors last year.

Hip hop favourites Black Eyed Peas and rockers Kasabian are among music stars lining up for a clutch of global concerts to toast 250 years of Guinness this autumn, it was revealed today.

INTERNATIONAL and Irish media experts will debate the impact of video in media at the Guinness Storehouse tomorrow.

Software company Unitas Software has been named as the North’s fastest growing tech company after it broke into the top 10 of this year’s Deloitte Technology Fast 50.

The team behind a new person-specific learning tool has been awarded a 'One to Watch' prize by Enterprise Ireland.

Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach Tom Kitt today opened the 10th UN CEFACT Forum which is being held for the first time in Dublin, at the Guinness Storehouse.

FOUR of the seven Guild of Agricultural Journalists awards, which Health Minister Mary Harney presented at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, were won by Irish Farmers Journal contributors.

TG4 is to broadcast the official announcement of the Guinness Hurling Legends team at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin on Friday, September 30.

MUNSTER finally secured some silverware this year after Limerick man Dominic O’Connor was named Ireland’s best bartender.

Deloitte in association with InterTradeIreland's EquityNetwork, has launched its annual Technology Fast 50 programme in Ireland.