Mammoth bones found in Russia and Ukraine may tell us an important lesson.

As a result of three separate operations, Revenue officers at Dublin Airport seized more than 33,000 cigarettes with an estimated retail value of €22,500.

Every sportswriter is a trader in nostalgia. It comes with the territory: Instant memories. Even if you file a match report on the whistle it’s already fading into the past — “matches previously played” was Christopher Hitchens’ phrase.

The US President has long denigrated the non-partisan work of his intelligence analysts, but he has finally ratcheted that up to the firing of top officials, says Kent Harrington

Manchester City’s history in European football is a curious case of the premature, the never-has-been and, as of today, the maybe-never-will-be, writes Simon Curtis.

The passenger was in isolation since landing on Saturday evening.

A HSE spokeswomen, while not confirming any details relating to the incident, said yesterday that they have a "protocol in place" to activate any plan at ports of entry into Ireland.

That a man was escorted off a flight from Moscow at Dublin Airport on Saturday night after showing signs of coronavirus underlines that 2020 actuality.

Dublin is the 17th most congested city in the world.

The US feared the Russians could be plotting an undercover Cold War spy base in a disused Cork dockyard, newly declassified government documents suggest.

An Irish diplomat who went searching for a portion of the Russian crown jewels 40 years after they were returned to the Soviet Union said he was not able to locate them, recently released state papers reveal.

The Russian president is terrified of free and fair elections as his recent crackdown demonstrates, writes Lyubov Sobol

These are the most breathtaking pictures of the year.

Russia has been handed a four-year ban from major international sporting events after being found guilty of manipulating laboratory doping data.

If the football career of Ireland U21 newcomer Thomas O’Connor’s doesn’t work out, there’s a fair chance he’ll end up hurling at Nowlan Park.

The venue allocation to stage the 2022 world championships in equestrian sport will be announced this coming Saturday during the 2019 FEI General Assembly which is being held in Moscow.

Alan Foley’s winter production has become a Cork tradition, so much so its annual run has been dubbed ‘Ballet Week’.

Four hundred friends packed into St Agatha's Church, Kingston in London today for the funeral service of Trizia Fiorellino, who wrote on all matters Chelsea for this newspaper.

Both Laura's photo and video have proved so popular, media outlets from Singapore to Russia have used it in features.

Oh Lordy. Where do we start? Do we actually have to start? Can we somehow sneak out of it?

If US intelligence agencies do not toe Donald Trump’s line, they will become public enemy number one for his base, says Kent Harrington

Connacht full-back Tiernan O’Halloran said they were shocked how unfit Russia were when they played them in Moscow in their final World Cup warm-up match.

Ireland’s world-beating ploughmen Eamonn Tracey from Carlow and John Whelan from Wexford will between them bid for their 13th top-two-in-the-world performances, after winning their national test matches at Carlow last week.

Planes carrying prisoners freed by Russia and Ukraine have landed in the countries' capitals, in an exchange that could be a significant step towards improving relations between Moscow and Kiev.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released after spending a month in jail for calling for an unsanctioned protest.

We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by by looking back at some Irish Examiner front pages and highlighting other events which went down in history across the world.

Happy anniversary to us, dear reader. It’s 20 years to the week since this column began, and how very different the United world is today.

It is nearly always the case that when a society, or even a section of society, take to the streets to oppose autocracy, the usual cheering from a distant, safe sideline is quickly tempered by prudent apprehension. There are too many examples of human aspiration crushed by brook-no-argument force.

The former Soviet state recently held free-and-fair elections, but unless it can eradicate corruption it will not gain EU entry and may slip into Russia’s clutches, says John Bruton.