As if it wasn’t glorious enough, the Kerry countryside has just been adorned with one of the most stunning women in the world.

Quinn Insurance and subsidiaries last year returned to profit, recording pre-tax profits of €99.8m in spite of revenues more than halving to €223m.

Ryanair will open a base at Krakow, Poland in April 2013, with two-based aircraft flying to and from Dortmund, Gothenburg, Manchester and Kos, it was announced today.

Margarita Gruber was able to leverage her international background when she spied a gap in Dublin’s hospitality market. Providing multilingual tourist excursions made her a finalist in the National Enterprise Awards, writes Trish Dromey

FABIO CAPELLO was relieved to avoid the difficult Group B at Euro 2012 and content with England’s “balanced” Group D draw.

Vienna, Austria

Pope Benedict XVI recalled the legacy and final days of suffering of Pope John Paul II on the first anniversary of his death today, saying the late pope lived out until the very end his mission to guide the Catholic Church.

Brothers and sisters, do not be afraid to welcome Christ and accept his power ... Open wide the doors for Christ. To his saving power open the boundaries of states, economic and political systems, the vast fields of culture, civilisation and development.

A fingerprint and stylistic touches uncovered during restoration of a disputed Renaissance masterpiece raises the possibility that it may have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci.

PRAYERS were being said throughout the world yesterday for Pope John Paul II, who is in hospital receiving treatment for flu.

February 1, 2005: Pope urgently hospitalised at Rome’s Polyclinic Gemelli with breathing difficulties and an inflamed throat while battling the flu.

President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin urged North Korea and Iran today to halt development of nuclear weapons, and Bush stood by his assertion that Iraq had prohibited arms.