If you think the flu going around at the moment, is bad, the biggest killer flu the world had ever known happened 100 years ago. Nuala Wolfe looks at how it affected everything from GAA finals to the politics of the day

A special ceremony will be held on an island off the south-west coast tomorrow to mark the exact day 80 years ago when the British handed over its fortifications to Free State forces.

Looking for a staycation with a difference? From new menus to room revamps, Ciara McDonnell uncovers the hotels offering that little bit extra in 2018.

A woman who lost her mother, partner, sister and two boys in the Buncrana, Co Donegal drowning tragedy has told how she knew something was wrong the moment the phone rang.

A pre-inquest hearing into the Buncrana Pier tragedy, in which five members of the same family drowned, has heard that first responders could not open the doors of the car which had entered the water.

No formal inquest into the deaths of five family members has been set yet.

“He wasn’t just our captain or leader. He was our warrior on the park. But a gentleman off it. Devastated.” The words of Derry City team-mate Nicky Low summed up the loss and pain being felt across football following the death of Candystripes captain Ryan McBride.

Neil Hegarty’s first novel begins with a flashback to the Donegal countryside in September 1983.

Every cloud has a silver lining and 2016 proved to be no exception. Gwen Loughman looks at the year that was through eight Irish people who made the year that bit brighter

An overhaul of the pier on which five members of one family died when their car slipped into the sea has taken place to ensure a similar tragedy never happens again.

Donegal Investment Group PLC has put the 2,400-acre Grianan Estate up for sale, with a €17m guide price.

A man is in hospital after he was found in the sea last night off the same pier where five members of the one family died in Buncrana in March.

Widow Louise James has asked friends to rally around her once again this week as she prepares to mark a month since the drowning tragedy that claimed five of her family at Buncrana Pier.

The hero of the Buncrana drownings tragedy has said he is looking forward to being a part of the life of the baby he saved from the freezing sea.

Mrs Brown’s Boys star Danny O’Carroll has revealed plans for two celebrity events in his adopted Co Donegal next month to raise money for two charities — the Buncrana drowning tragedy and suicide prevention.

Dublin GAA fans have offered to pay tribute to those who died in the Donegal drowning tragedy. Supporters’ clubs have organised a tribute to the five family members who died when their car slipped off Buncrana Pier last Sunday evening.

A grieving woman who lost her partner, two sons, mother, and sister in the Donegal drowning tragedy has shown unbridled courage to write and read a poem in their honour.

The sight of five coffins being carried up the steps of the Holy Family Church was beyond heartbreaking.

Two days after five people died at a Co Donegal pier, warning signs or safety measures have still not been installed there.

They came clutching flowers with despair and disbelief etched on their faces.

Thirty-five people were saved from likely death last year by lifeboat crews who rescued more than 1,200 people in Irish waters.

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Want to discover the Wild Atlantic Way? Tommy Barker checks out the most southern point, at Mizen Head in West Cork, and the most northern — Malin Head in Donegal.

Met Éireann is expected to issue a red alert as gale force winds of up to 130km/h, high tides, rain, sleet, hail, and thunder hit the country this weekend.

Schoolchildren yesterday heard of their island home’s “unusual history” during a local commemoration of the 75th anniversary handover of a former British-built fort to Ireland.

Two fishermen have been pulled to safety after their open-topped boat crashed onto rocks near Ireland’s most northerly headland.

Despite being in the Dáil til after midnight as the abortion debate rumbled on, a bright-eyed Taoiseach found himself within hours riding the high seas in a powerboat on Cork harbour on one of the most beautiful days of the summer.

A global anti-fish farming activist on a tour of the west coast has called for details of chemical anti-parasite treatments used in Irish waters to be made available.

A remote community on a rugged Irish headland have come together to commemorate an almost forgotten naval disaster on their shores more than two centuries ago.

Lifeboats around Ireland were launched 377 times over the summer amid often unpredictable weather.

A rescue operation is over on Lough Swilly after a man was taken from the sea onto the Lough Swilly Lifeboat and airlifted to Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry.

A vast red tide of algae threatening the multimillion-euro shellfish industry on the Atlantic seaboard is being compounded by a seven-year bureaucratic delay.

Six bouquets of flowers marked the freshly dug grave of Margaret McGuire, lying finally beside her husband Thomas.

Health chiefs remain concerned about a small number of residents who are ill at a private nursing home where six people have died in a suspected viral outbreak.

I HEARD an unmistakable sound — a wild trumpeting filling the sky.

MORE than 200 Irish people celebrated their 100th birthday this year according to figures released this week.

A 19-year-old kayaker had to be rescued on Lough Swilly in Co. Donegal earlier today.

Emergency services are involved in a major incident in the waters of Donegal.

SOME famous old New Zealand players will be holding a reunion this weekend when one question will be asked more than any other: ‘Whatever became of All Black No. 686?’

A body has been found in Lough Swilly in Co. Donegal.

A search for a teenager missing for over a week will resume in Donegal today.