Although Storm Ciara forced cancellation of the open-air event, EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan lifted spirits with a rousing speech at the formal handover of the European Capital of Culture title.

Dublin Airport set a new record for traffic as it welcomed 32.9 million passengers last year.

The Land Development Agency says a redesign of Dublin is needed in order to make it a better place for families.

Jazz in Europe these days exists in a highly networked environment of cultural and political bodies, festivals, promoters, musicians and educators.

Seventeen-year-old speed skater Tara Donoghue was left feeling somewhat bittersweet after becoming the first Irish ice skater to claim a quota spot at a Youth Olympic Games — only to realise she’s overage

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Chinese airline Juneyao Air will operate the flights

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s flights on the Learjet alone produced over six times more carbon than a person’s average yearly emissions from travel, food production, home heating, electricity use, and other activities.

Irish show jumpers will line out on both sides of the Atlantic this week as the 2019/2020 FEI World Cup series gathers momentum.

With the official team season now done for 2019, attention turns to the individual jumping circuit with the first European round of the FEI World Cup series taking place in Norway at Oslo Horse Show this weekend.

EU Ministers for Agriculture this week backed grasslands, crop rotation, reduced tillage, direct sowing, afforestation and agroforestry, as the ways to maximise carbon sequestration on agricultural land.

Fresh warnings to industry to continue with preparations for a hard Brexit have come hot on the heels of the cross-party moves in the British House of Commons to block a no-deal Brexit.

As far as Mick McCarthy is concerned, the good news is that Georgia held Denmark 0-0. And the bad news is that Georgia held Denmark 0-0.

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said the British government has not made credible proposals to replace the backstop in the Brexit withdrawal agreement.

On Monday night, ICHH observed 238 people sleeping rough in Dublin, the highest number ever recorded.

Consumer and investor fears of a disorderly Brexit are growing, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has conceded.

Which is the best way to handle the Brexit debacle?

Tánaiste Simon Coveney and British prime minister Boris Johnson have begun the latest final stretch in the Brexit diplomatic marathon as the pair rather aptly flying off in completely different directions.

The Government is ramping up its Brexit backstop campaign as it faces increasing pressure to clarify where new checks and inspections on goods will take place if the UK crashes out of the EU.

Croke Park isn’t supposed to be a bundle of fun when three-quarters of the place lies out of bounds and the crowd can be corralled into a few sections of the Lower Hogan Stand.

Hayfield Collection sales director Karen Fleming was among 17 women who undertook an epic five-day Arctic trek to fundraise for DEBRA Ireland, she tells Helen O’Callaghan.

Fota Wildlife Park has announced the names of its four new arrivals of endangered Asian lion cubs.

Global stockmarkets led by Asia joined in a relief rally after US president Donald Trump and China called a truce in their trade war.

The world presumed the US president was a pawn in his Russian counterpart’s game. It could prove to be the other way around, writes Nina L Khrushcheva.

Your lunchtime headlines.

Sorry Bród and Shadow, there’s a new doggo stealing the limelight in the world of politics.

The Food on the Edge symposium (October 22-23) returns with a gathering of chefs and food personages, from home and abroad, assembling in Galway for talks, panel discussions, and masterclasses, led by joint MCs, chef/restaurateur JP McMahon (Galway), chef Matt Orlando (Copenhagen), and Sasu Laukkonen (Helsinki).

Jessie Barr admits she would “give anything” to race in another Olympics as she returns to training this month.

From Washington to Pyongyang, Paul Manafort may change how the US and its tweeting president are viewed, writes David Eckles Wade.

I’ve been writing this column since Bill Clinton lied about a blow job in the Oval Office, spurring my sister to write her doctoral thesis about the role of the special prosecutor, then Kenneth Starr.

The US president isn’t a Russian agent. He just can’t countenance any suggestion that he needed the help of Putin’s hackers to beat the Democrats, whom he considers sore losers, says Ramesh Ponnuru

The fashionable attack on Trump-ology as fascism has enough basis to be credible, and sufficient foundation to inculcate fear, writes Gerard Howlin. 

Your lunchtime headlines

Vladimir Lenin’s “useful idiots” were the Western intellectuals invited to the Soviet Union to witness and tell the world about the wonders of the worker’s utopia.

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The owners of Rocinante, a 17m long ketch, asking price €50,000, are a rum crew, with a story behind them, writes Damien Enright.

The Department of Foreign Affairs looked for a Brexit war chest to manage Ireland’s interests as the UK prepares to leave the EU.

Three people who allegedly threw firebombs at a synagogue in Gothenburg have been arrested, as Jewish groups condemned the attack and demanded authorities take action.

At least four people have been killed after a train collided with a military vehicle at a level crossing in southern Finland, police and military officials said.

A number of soldiers have reportedly been killed in a train crash in the southern part of Finland.

Lego said it would lay off around 8% of its staff — some 1,400 — and revamp its business after reporting its first fall in sales in more than a decade.

Lego said it would lay off around 8% of its staff — some 1,400 — and revamp its business after reporting its first fall in sales in more than a decade.

A British man who said he was not a hero after being stabbed in a suspected terror attack in Finland has told how he tried to save a woman's life after hearing a "heart-breaking scream".'

Dublin is among more than 20 European cities battling to become the new homes to two EU agencies which will leave London because of Brexit.

A new film explores the life of Tom of Finland, the man whose drawings were so instrumental in developing the gay aesthetic, writes Ellie O’Byrne.