Picture the scene; Six Nations 2030, a packed stadium of 50,000 cheering fans, a large green pocket of Irish travelling fans surrounded by maroon shirts. Hold on, Maroon? It’s not that the Welsh shirts had a France shirt mixed up in the wash, it’s Georgia.

Around mid-January we booked a week away in Portugal last minute. We had completely missed out on Christmas as all three of us got that nasty virus that struck down most of the country.

Nothing will change my belief that an elected British government is democratic and the EU bloc is a doomed dystopia, says David Kernek

Soaring costs at the company behind Paddy Cosgrave’s Web Summit business sent pre-tax profits plummeting to €125,823 last year, from €3.8m in 2017.

At her lowest moment, Stephanie Cotter decided to aim high.

As journeys go, it’d be hard to find a more remarkable one across the length and breadth of Irish sport. From Eritrea to France, onwards to Ireland and finally, two years later, standing proud on a European podium in Portugal.

For the Irish, this was their best-ever medal haul at the European Cross Country, but it was also so much more. For so many years, they had come to this event with hopes rested squarely on the shoulders of Fionnuala McCormack alone.

Macron wants to lead the EU into the 21st century. But he will succeed only if he does not go too far.

It was both a look back and a glance forward — an appreciation of a past great and the heralding of her successor. And through all of yesterday’s National Athletics Awards in Santry, there was an excited sense of expectancy with an Olympic year starting to loom on the horizon.

Fionnuala McCormack will carry the medal hopes for the Irish at the European Cross Country on Sunday, December 8, the 35-year-old announced on an Irish team of 40 for the event in Lisbon.

There have been bigger days in Fionnuala McCormack’s career, but few that felt as sweet. Not only did the 35-year-old stamp her supremacy over her rivals at today’s National Cross Country Championships in Abbotstown, winning her ninth senior title, but she was able to share the podium with her younger sister Una.

Kevin Markham visits Porto and finds that golf is only one of the sweet things on offer

An international law enforcement agency which is battling major drug trafficking has presented a prestigious award to a senior Cork-based garda for his work in this field.

Up to 30 highly-skilled staff are based there, working in software development, quality assurance, operations and inside sales. But there are plans to more than double the headcount there to around 70 over the next two years.

Ryanair shares dipped slightly after its success in blocking a 48-hour strike by its Dublin-based pilots was followed by the British High Court giving the green-light for a potentially more damaging UK pilot strike.

Sometimes travel can be more about the journey than the destination, as Caroline Hennessy and her family discovered when they took a 13-hour overnight journey from San Sebastián to Lisbon to check out the Trenhotel experience

University College Cork researchers have unearthed some 200 volumes of centuries-old newsletters that shine a light on 16th and 17th-century life in Europe.

Smart cities are more likely to be defined by quieter upgrades to existing infrastructure and new partnerships that better represent residents.

Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Latest: Aer Lingus has apologised to passengers due to fly into Cork forced to stay overnight in Lisbon airport after their flight was cancelled this weekend.

A Kerry man died last week after kitesurfing in Portugal, it has merged.

Michael O’Sullivan warned that “decent” people who buy cocaine are “increasing the flow of power and funnelling finances to these gangsters.”

Music mogul he may be but my fascination with Pharrell Williams has a lot more to do with the fact that he appears not to have aged at all.

Dublin house prices are among the least affordable in Europe, with a borrower needing to spend over 14 years of their disposable income to buy a home, according to research from Moody’s Investors Service.

The airport says arrivals and departures will be up 10% over the same period last year with June 1 expected to be the busiest day.

IF you happen to be contemplating a global circumnavigation by yacht, there are not many better places to consider the fascinating journey than Foynes Island, Co Limerick.

Christy Moore is among those playing gigs coinciding with the song contest final on Saturday, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Glastonbury is back and there are a host of other overseas festivals offering impressive line-up, writes Ed Power.

The word legend is overused in football. Even the most heroic of players should remain heroes during their lifetimes, becoming legends only when they are gone.

“Goodison is no place to go with a Spanish hangover,” fretted your pessimistic correspondent here last week, although not even I thought the week would turn out quite this badly.

A group of Scottish pensioners have picked up spray cans for the first time to create a piece of street art.

An Easyjet flight which had been diverted to an airport in Portugal allegedly took off without its disembarked passengers, who had to travel by coach to their final destination.

The Premier League's 20 clubs say they will "vigorously defend" the domestic game against any plans to alter it.