Agent 47 has been a very busy boy this year, with multiple adventures seeing him murdering around the world.

ONE of the great challenges around trying to slow climate change, to avert something pretty close to chaos for our grandchildren and their children, is to make the issue everyday: To make the struggle relevant and an active part of our lives. 

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Hitman has now released three locations with the latest being Marrakesh, and now you've got another reason to dive back into this dense map - an elusive target is hiding there.

The reign of Elizabeth I was the first time that Muslims began openly living in England. It stemmed from the queen’s isolation from Catholic Europe and her excommunication by Pope Pius V in 1570. Attitudes towards Islam then have parallels for us today, writes Josephine Fenton.

Bernardine Coverley, daughter of Irish parents who ran a pub in Brixton, met the painter, Lucian Freud when she was 16 and he was 20 years her senior.

Agent 47 is back in March 2016, with a new Hitman game that's already looking like it has plenty to like for fans.

Hitman is a new game in the long running series, which started on the PC back in 2000 with Hitman Agent 47. Developers IO Interactive are still at the helm of this series, which last gifted us with ultraviolence in 2012's Hitman Absolution.

They look after us all year — so where do Ireland’s top hoteliers take time out? Tony Clayton-Lea talks holidays of a lifetime with Francis Brennan, Kevin Dundon and more.

The odd, unconventional looks of today’s most successful models are largely the result of the vision of one woman. Alice Gregory reports.

FIFA’s executive committee has agreed unanimously that an “appropriate” form of the Garcia report into World Cup bidding should be published.

Christmas has become a commercial behemoth and it reminds Liz O’Neill of her Dad too much. So she, like Americans for the first time, is off to sample the delights of Cuba

FIFA has been accused of overseeing a “new failure” after Michael Garcia, the man in charge of investigating the World Cup, quit his post.

The man in charge of investigating World Cup has quit with a parting blast at Fifa’s leadership.

A British holidaymaker jailed in Morocco for being gay has had a tearful reunion with his family as he returned to the UK following his release from prison.

Ryanair is moving into the business passenger market and taking on Aer Lingus in one of its most profitable routes.

Ryanair is launching nine new routes to and from Dublin Airport this winter.

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Ryanair has said that it would still “love” to continue growing its services at Cork Airport, but stressed that expansion is wholly reliant on the airport improving its commercial terms.

Ryanair has announced seven new routes which will bring more than 800,000 new passengers through Dublin Airport this year.

Ryanair has announced seven new winter routes into Dublin Airport, which it says will bring in an extra 800,000 passengers.

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Ryanair has been accused of snubbing Cork Airport during its one million passenger growth strategy triggered by the scrapping of the €3 travel tax in the budget.

Ryanair is to open nine new routes from Dublin and increase frequencies on eight existing routes, the airline announced today.

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Low-cost airline Ryanair is pinning its hopes on an end to the summer heatwave after passenger numbers were hit by the good weather amid plunging first-quarter profits.

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More than 40 people have been killed when a bus drove off a road in central Morocco and plunged down a 500-foot ravine.

A lawyer said she has evidence the young man accused of killing seven people in attacks on French soldiers and a Jewish school claimed his innocence to police.

A BOMB killed 15 people including 10 foreigners in Morocco’s bustling tourist destination of Marrakesh, state television said yesterday, in an attack that bore the hallmark of Islamist militants.

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'X Factor' judge Dannii Minogue's house auditions in Australia cost TV bosses "a fortune", it has been claimed.

Ryanair have announced five new routes from Madrid to Ancona, Ibiza, Krakow, Oujda (Morocco) and Stockholm Skavsta from November 2010.

Ryanair announced today that it will open five new routes from Bologna to Fez, Lanzarote, Marrakesh, Tenerife and Zaragoza from November 2010.

Matt Damon was not expecting to win Best Supporting Actor at this year's Oscars.

FRENCH lawmakers narrowly voted through Nicolas Sarkozy’s plans to rewrite the constitution last night which the president says will make France more democratic but which the opposition fears will turn it into a “monocracy”.

A DEFIANT Ryanair is adding 40 new routes this winter — saying turbulent times for the industry will not halt its expansion plans.

Ryanair has announced 14 new routes across Europe to be launched in October.

HOPES of a breakthrough in the search for Madeleine McCann have been dashed by the news that a potentially significant phone call received last week was a hoax.