Forestry expert and fireman Morgan Roche is fighting the ferocious bushfires in Australia, where he has lived for 20 years, says Nicky Sullivan

Details have been announced of a special local authority centenary commemorative meeting in Cork next month to mark a key moment in the birth of the nation.

RTÉ’s environment correspondent, George Lee, wrote on December 6, 2018, that atmospheric CO2 production is deemed as being generated within the state where carbon fuel has been bought, rather than from where the fuel is burned.

The family of a pioneering civil servant who advised Michael Collins on the Treaty negotiations and who helped devise the compensation and reconstruction scheme following the burning of Cork, has donated his vast personal archive to his native city.

US Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Ireland next month on behalf of President Donald Trump, the White House has confirmed.

Grocery price inflation is climbing by an annual rate of 3.1%, the fastest pace since late 2014, market researcher Kantar has said.

The chief executive of aircraft leasing company Avolon, Domhnal Slattery has resourced and produced a key report on entrepreneurship in Ireland.

Our two nations may be divided by distance but are united by history.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said no trade deal between Britain and the United States which undermines the Good Friday Agreement is possible.

"I’m not sure Leo Varadkar said all of that."

Ask Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages like ...

Irish dairy co-ops are making the most of what could be the last year of an accessible UK market on the doorstep.

At last, autonomy for women living in Ireland, autonomy taken from them for so very, very long writes Suzanne Harrington.

A fourth victim has been reported dead in a ferocious house fire in Fermanagh, a detective investigating the claim said.

A dissident republican group behind dozens of gun and bomb attacks on security forces in Northern Ireland has declared a ceasefire.

Latest: Detectives investigating the murder of a Japanese man during a series of random attacks in Dundalk, Co Louth have said terrorism is one line of inquiry.

The Irish and British governments have clashed over whether the Brexit agreement intended to trigger trade talks is legally binding or not.

DUP leader Arlene Foster has warned against a "zero sum" approach to the Irish border, as negotiations between the UK and the EU in the current round of Brexit talks reach their final stage.

Gerry Adams has said he understands how victims of IRA violence feel, as he prepares to step aside after 34 years as leader of Sinn Féin.

Gerry Adams is anticipated to outline a timetable for retirement as he addresses the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in Dublin.

The Government will argue against any new technological or physical monitoring on the Irish border in Brexit talks over the future of its only land frontier with the EU.

The Wild Atlantic Way has been ranked alongside America’s Route 66 as one of the world’s ultimate road trips by Lonely Planet.

A brother of abuse victims campaigner Billy McConville has urged politicians in the North to fulfil his dying wish and compensate those who suffered.

Sinn Féin and other Stormont parties have insisted Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire could not chair the efforts to restore powersharing.

The Prince of Wales stressed the possibilities inherent in breaking down barriers on a Northern Ireland visit that took in a cross border hospital and a centre dedicated to one of his favourite poets.

A judge has given lawyers for a veteran republican charged in connection with the murder of Jean McConville a week to hand over medical notes related to a dementia diagnosis.

Prominent republican Thomas “Slab” Murphy had nothing to do with cattle farming, according to his lawyers in an appeal against conviction for evading tax on profits from a farming business.

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Brexit would trigger a “profound economic shock” in Northern Ireland and result in an inevitable hardening of the Irish border, the UK Chancellor will warn on a visit to the region.

Trust in politicians was at a very low ebb when attempts were made insensitively and brusquely to impose water charges.

Prominent republican Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy will move to appeal his conviction for tax evasion later this year.

As a piper played a lament, sheets of rain shrouded the tears of relatives yesterday in the yard of the Old Cork Prison where the 1916 rebel Thomas Kent was executed 100 years ago.

Modular emergency accommodation to address homelessness is costing €190,000 and up. It is also alleged €80,000 could supply an eco friendly home.

Gang members jailed for up to 6 years 8 months; £17m in items stolen; may have sold for treble that

February 24, 2007. One of Irish sport’s greatest days. One of the GAA’s proudest too, as rugby and England were made welcome in Croke Park. 

The spirit of 1798 was the inspiration for the Rising in Enniscorthy, which, despite the lack of arms proved to be one of the more remarkable episodes of the week, writes Conor McNamara

Despite being cleared of any dereliction of duty, the failure of the Cork Brigade to take part in the rebellion weighed heavily on the minds of Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney, writes Gerry White

The case against Thomas “Slab” Murphy is based on “utterly ludicrous” documentation which attempts to link the prominent republican to a non-existent farming income, his defence barrister has said.

In his reply to my letter, Derek O’Flynn of the Israeli Embassy ( Letters, November 6) inadvertently admits to the Apartheid system that exists in the West Bank, when he argues that the water Israel allows to them is two thirds that available to Israeli settlers.

YOU could find out in advance, but it’s better to wait for the surprise. Walk along the carpeted corridor in anticipation. No it’s left, not right.

Update at 9.45pm: The dead garda was understood to be aged in his 30s and a married father of three young children. Another man died and a woman is seriously injured as a result of the shooting incident in Co Louth.