Tommy Barker visits a property that has the best of both worlds, set in a rustic idyll yet just a short hop in the car to the bright lights of the city

Reduced from a five-seater to four, Dublin South-Central has lost a population of more than 9,600 from Terenure and close to 3,000 in Kimmage.

A Cork northside all-Irish secondary school which had to turn away dozens of pupils because of space restrictions this year has been approved to expand by the Department of Education.

US Vice President Dick Cheney began Easter Sunday with a prayer and the singing of “Amazing Grace” at a tiny chapel in Jerusalem, then launched into a day of talks about the Mideast peace process and the rising influence of Iran in the region.

A former Christian Brother from the North Monastery in Cork was told today that he could thank the victim he sexually assaulted for the fact that he was not going to prison.