Troy Parrott and James McCarthy look like missing out on Ireland’s Euro play-off against Slovakia after manager Mick McCarthy insisted they both have a queue ahead of them to jump.

Kenny will be in charge when the competition gets underway in September.

Israel’s founders advocated a universalism of ‘complete equality’, whereas its current leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has a narrow agenda, says Mark Leonard.

Ireland’s tax system is the best in Europe and the fourth-best in the world in terms of the ease in dealing with local tax authorities, according to a global survey by accountants PwC.

In his role as head of youth development with AIK Stockholm, Cork native, Mark O'Sullivan, is at the forefront of a new wave of thinking around the coaching of children.

He acknowledged that there are “genuine cases”, but added that there are societal expectations now that following a rear ending incident “that one should have some neck pain"

Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 700th career goal as Portugal fell to a 2-1 defeat to Ukraine, who became the fifth team to qualify for Euro 2020.

The low-fare airline, is now flying from Cork to Malaga six times per week as well as four flights a week to the Spanish resort of Palma, now four per week.

Balanced recognition due to legacy of Howard Holdings’ Greg Coughlan, says his former co-director and colleague Brian Madden.

Stripe, the €19.8bn-valued online payments company founded by Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison, is set to expand into eight European countries, primarily on the eastern side of the continent.

Immigrants, especially non-white, are singled going to/from the North, and asylum seekers take a circuitous route. Brexit’s hard border is already here for them, says Luke Butterly.

Europe experienced a truly miraculous few months 30 years ago. At a precipice, blood could have flowed. The floodgates of change opened instead, writes Carl Bildt

Ireland's Natalya Coyle has qualified for her third Olympics in a row.

Wexford Youths boss Tom Elmes rued his side’s failure to take their chances as they suffered defeat in their Champions League opener in Lithuania yesterday.

More than €100 million worth of potentially dangerous food and drinks was seized in the latest enforcement drive by Europol’s Intellectual Property Crime Coordination Centre, and Interpol, the international organisation that facilitates worldwide police co-operation.

New figures from an EU Commission study show that the average creche cost for this age group is €771 per month.

Ireland’s Ryan Mullen has come within a second of taking a medal in the men’s cycling time trial at the European Games in Minsk.

The Government is to sign off on the roll-out of Garda body cameras tomorrow.

The Pirbright Institute is entering into partnership with a Belgian company to develop the first antiviral drugs against African swine fever (ASF).

Distance in today’s world erects no barriers to the spread of contagion, which is why Agriculture Minister Michael Creed and the president of the Irish Farmers’ Association have issued warnings about the westward path of African swine fever, an infection that threatens no harm to humans but which kills pigs and wild boar.

A convicted murderer has received a 15-year prison sentence for raping a woman in her home nine years ago.

Increases in the minimum wage may not have made an overall positive difference to many workers across the EU, including Ireland, a report has found.

Providing access to computers in schools is not enough and governments will need to review life-long teaching to keep up with the pace of automation that threatens many jobs, according to a major report.

A new global study has found that Irish women are some of the heaviest drinkers in the world.

A man's body has been found in Dublin.

HBO and Sky 's co-production 'Chernobyl', based on the true-life accident that occurred in Soviet Ukraine in 1986, will air next week.

A woman has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of murdering her boyfriend by stabbing him in the chest in her Co Tipperary home over two years ago.

The skylark is a bird everyone loves to hear, warbling excitedly as it rises into the air and signalling the coming of summer.

John Hearne reviews the merits of digital banking services which do not charge fees, but which also do not offer loans, overdrafts or credit cards

Agri professionals from across the world are attending a five-day grassland training course being hosted this week by Teagasc Ballyhaise Agricultural College, Co Cavan.

A fourth man is being questioned by gardaí in relation to the brutal machete murder in Cork of a Polish-born father.

Brides and grooms are waiting longer and longer to get married, with new data from the Central Statistics Office showing the average age of those getting married reached a record high last year.

83% of adults perceive their health as good or very good, according to data released by Eurostat today.

The garda investigation into the brutal machete murder of a Polish father in Cork last summer is “live, ongoing and active”, the city’s coroner has been told.