Staunton collected seven points and lifted national silverware for the Mayo club as Cork opponents Mourneabbey lost a final for the third time in four seasons.

Melbourne Cup hero Rekindling is set for a short break in Australia before returning to Europe with next year's Gold Cup at Royal Ascot a possible target.

Like their last two All-Ireland final clashes, champions Dublin have pipped Mayo by one in the 2017 PwC All-Stars, picking up seven to Mayo’s six.

Champagne doesn’t have a season — I’m fairly sure most of us would drink it every day if we were let, writes Leslie Williams.

Paddy Brophy was standing on the fine white sand of City Beach in Perth, the impossibly blue waters of the Indian Ocean stretching beyond the horizon before him, when he arrived at the decision to come home.

With the release of T2 Trainspotting later this week, Declan Burke selects a list of films he believes are superior to their literary source.

If you would like to spend one short day in the Emerald City, tickets for the Dublin dates go on sale from the Bord Gais Energy Theatre on Friday June 30 at 9am.

2017 kicked off for our acclaimed rugby columnist last night with Racing against Toulon. But before we let 2016 pass...

Men die six years younger than women and are more often victims of suicide. Rita de Brún meets the Australian trying to change all that.

Millions of Trump supporters have not a problem in the world disregarding the facts, says Terry Prone

 

If you need some cheering up, we highly recommend this video of an Irish girl arriving home from Australia - to the shock and absolute delight of her mother.

His family surprised him with the trip to see his two sisters who emigrated when they were young.

What’s with everyone giving their relatives trips of a lifetime as birthday presents? You’re making the rest of us look bad.

James Heffernan has a formidable election team at his home base, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe

Imagine what it’s like to go from being stationed in the Cork burbs to being stationed in the Australian outback. Jonathan de Burca Butler meets up with Irish gardai who are being snapped up in Western Australia because of their high level of training

Police say they now believe that bones found beside an outback highway in South Australia were those of a little girl, aged between two and four-years-old.

Johnny Depp’s dogs may have escaped a death sentence, but the star could still be in the doghouse with Australian authorities.

Prince Harry has emerged from a farewell walkabout in the shadow of the famous Sydney Opera House with a kiss and a marriage proposal.

David Cameron is preparing for another term as the UK's Prime Minister, the Limerick woman who along with her young daughter died in a road crash in Poland on Wednesday, had just moved into a new family home in Norway and Memphis Depay has vowed to help bring the glory days back to Old Trafford. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

Australia will adopt a “no jab, no pay” policy to block parents who refuse to vaccinate their children from some government benefits.

A Cork man decided to give his mother a brilliant surprise for her 50th birthday.

This clip will have you beaming.

A Cobh man had his left ear bitten off during an assault at Christmas four years ago by a young man who then fled to Australia where he was recently arrested and extradited back to Ireland.

Panti Bliss is taking on Oz to highlight equality in Ireland and abroad.

JOHN CREEDON presents a music show on RTÉ Radio 1 weeknights from the RTÉ Cork studios, and also the Fleadh Cheoil series on RTÉ One television on Fridays at 7.30pm.

Three members of an Irish family have been hospitalised with serious injuries following a fatal road accident in Australia.

A five-year-old boy and his seven-year-old brother were recovering in an Australian hospital after surviving with their father for 10 days in the wilderness with little food and in weather conditions that ranged from stormy to scorching.

Nine months. Give or take a few days. That was more or less the time Kitch Christie had to fashion a team of world champions when he took over from Ian McIntosh as Springboks coach in October of 1994.

So Gerry Adams had a $500 dinner plate fundraiser in New York and Mary Lou travelled to Oz business class?

Canada is rapidly gaining ground on Australia as the most popular country for Irish people emigrating to find work.

An Irish backpacker charged with concealing the birth and death of her baby in Australia is being allowed return home while she waits for her trial to begin.

More than 150 tag rugby teams from Ireland, Britain and as far away as Australia will gather in Limerick from July 10-12 for the 2014 Pig ‘N’ Porter Festival, regarded as the world’s largest tag rugby festival.

THERE is a great quote from Niall Tóibín that I recently stumbled across in an old 1980 BBC radio documentary about Cork city and its inhabitants, called As Others See Us.

Kildare’s Daniel Flynn admits he is quickly readjusting to life in Australia.

South Australia is set to be the top destination for Irish people looking for work this year, with hairdressers and cooks most in demand and heading the occupations list just published by the South Australian immigration department.

I was five when I ended a brief dalliance with Bobby Robson’s Ipswich Town, swayed by the history of the Busby Babes, Munich, the Fifth Beatle and The King.