It looks like Star Wars has already had an impact on Irish tourism, as Skellig Michael, which features in The Force Awakens, was named among the top ten attractions along the Wild Atlantic Way by tourists.

Cian O’Connor was confident last night that Ireland’s show jumping team can battle back in the European Championships today in Aachen, Germany, to secure Olympic qualification.

The family of one of two homeless people whose bodies were taken from the River Lee on Sunday night has asked that donations be made to the Cork Simon Community.

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Sean Cavanagh admits the Tyrone players are all too aware of Mickey Harte’s promise that they will reach the All-Ireland quarter-finals — and insists they had faith in their own abilities to achieve it.

The death of a 16-year-old schoolboy while playing a match yesterday brings to two the number of young people who died suddenly in Cork over the past few days.

In the third of a five-part series, Conor Kane discovers a litany of job losses, factory closures and empty premises

A LARGE number of nurse retirements is impacting severely on the care of psychiatric patients in Kerry, it has been claimed.

SHOWJUMPINGIRELAND (SJI) has decided that its regions can use their 2012 allocation of sports development funding for non-sporting activities, including administration.

Lawyers for the State have told a jury that two men on trial for murdering a French man in Bray, went to the apartment he shared with his girlfriend and shot him through the window as they slept in bed.

THE parents of an 11-year-old boy killed by his neighbour were among the mourners at the removal of a garda superintendent whose tragic death from cancer came in the wake of his doctor’s negligence.

GEORGE and Enda Manzor are currently enjoying their 26th summer in their mobile home, in Glenbeigh, Co Kerry, but both had been coming to the area before they met.

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THOUSANDS of people turned out to pay their respects to former MEP Gene Fitzgerald at his removal which took place yesterday evening.

THE impressive entrance gates will attract the hobby farmer, but the 70 acres with this farm at Curryglass, Newtownshandrum, should draw serious farmers.

SCOTLAND took a giant step towards qualifying for the 2008 European Championships with an amazing 1-0 win over France in the Parc des Princes.

Protesters shut down a pipeline delivering Bolivian gas to Argentina last night as two rival Bolivian provinces struggled for control of a valuable natural gas field, officials said.