With each team from the EY Hockey League providing at least one player to Sean Dancer’s latest Irish panel, it means there will be a 35-day gap between rounds 15 and 16.

The 55-year-old man was released without charge last night after he was arrested following the discovery in Wiltshire, England yesterday.

Naomi Carroll will make her long-awaited return to Catholic Institute colours as she hopes to play a leading role in the Rosbrien side’s maiden year in the EY Hockey League.

Hate is just emotion, however distasteful the comment, whomever the target. It should not be prosecutable, unless it becomes incitement or violence, says Margaret Hickey

When David Peschier was taken ill during his summer holiday in Kinsale, his next stop was the emergency department at Cork University Hospital, where he eventually found himself on a trolley. He asked the Irish Examiner to print his account of his stay.

NAMA is seeking bidders for an 80% stake in Dublin's Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone project which, it says, has the potential for 3,500 homes and 1m sq ft of commercial space.

She said in a post on the group last night that the "Chu Chu train arrived in the station" with her election.

Green leader Eamon Ryan has called for a series of rainbow alliances with other parties following his party’s historic election wins.

The first elected councillor in Dublin City has pledged to press for better housing and cycle facilities after topping the poll and becoming the country's first Irish-Chinese local representative.

An inquest has heard how four members of a family died while attempting to do a u-turn on a busy national road.

An independent local councillor in Wexford claims that there is “a lot of smoke and mirrors” around the decision by Irish Ferries to halt its service from Rosslare.

An international summer of over 80 matches at each level tips off in earnest with perhaps the biggest of the challenge games, Olympic silver medalists Germany, coming to Pembroke tomorrow and Saturday.

Irish Ferries owner Irish Continental Group (ICG) has said its €315m investment in two new ferries will equip it for further growth and is a sign of confidence in the Irish Sea and French passenger markets.

Cork Harlequins ended UCD’s incredible 20-game unbeaten run in Belfield as Roisin Upton and Naomi Carroll struck for an excellent 2-1 win to open up the delayed women’s EY Hockey League.

With the détente between the Irish Hockey Umpires Association and Hockey Ireland in place, the EY Hockey League will tip off this weekend after two weeks of cancellations.

A man living on a one hundred tonne former minesweeper vessel in a Dublin harbour has won his Supreme Court appeal aimed at preventing it being removed and scrapped.

Latest: The Irish Coastguard says a person has been taken from the water by authorities searching for a woman in the Irish Sea.

UCC’s new-look women’s outfit will be given the sternest of early tests as they reacquaint themselves with Munster hockey.

Soprano Cara O’Sullivan keeps a family tradition alive by singing with a church choir every Christmas Eve, writes Liz O’Brien.

The first Munster derby of the EY Hockey League between Cork Harlequins and UCC pits many friends and former team-mates against each other at Harlequin Park tomorrow (2.30pm).

Cork Church of Ireland will get a first indication of whether they are genuine EY Hockey League title contenders when they host Lisnagarvey at Garryduff tomorrow (1.30pm).

A chance to buy 24 Cork apartments, 11 in the city centre in a quality, contemporary scheme and 13 in Passage West, all for €3.5 million, has come to market with DTZ Sherry FitzGerald, who’ll also sell in two specific lots.

For a man not renowned as having ‘sea legs’, it would be a lot easier to book a flight to take a trip from Cork to his home town in north Germany.

THE 20th century’s ill-fated ocean liners keep emerging as fragments on the antiques market. In the last few decades serious collectors have amassed some rare objects from infamous shipwrecks.

This guy is really awe-inspiring.

EVERY now and then, a Viking turns up, blond wood bared for battle, in the murky depths of a second hand shop. 

British Prime Minister David Cameron wants the use of premium rate telephone helplines for flooding victims to be ended “as quickly as it possibly can be”, Downing Street has said.

Motorists are being urged to take extreme care on the roads this morning, due to very stormy conditions.

Motorists are being urged to take extreme care on the roads this morning, due to very stormy conditions.

A section of the roof at Cork University Hospital was damaged and there were electricity outages and spot flooding around the south of the country as winds of up to 140km/h battered the country.

Met Éireann has issued a weather warning for today - with high winds causing travel disruption to a number of ferries.

IRISH people have such a funny attitude to holidaying in England and by funny I mean ridiculous.

Actor Tom Cruise has met with the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore for the presentation of a certificate of Irishness.

Six housing estates have been included in the list of properties exempted from the property tax despite never featuring in any official government list of unfinished developments.

Subzero temperatures that caused hazardous driving conditions across large parts of Ireland yesterday are likely to persist for some time today.

Batten down the hatches — that was the advice last night as Met Éireann and the Road Safety Authority (RSA) issued weather alerts, warning motorists and those living in coastal areas to take extra precautions.

Gardaí have issued specific flood warnings for several areas of Dublin today.

Market analysts have remained relatively upbeat over the prospects for ferry operator/freight business, Irish Continental Group (ICG) — which holds its annual general meeting on Wednesday.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver will follow up his appearance at the Taste of Dublin festival by opening his own restaurant in the capital, it emerged yesterday.

Around 75 new jobs are to be created with the opening of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's first restaurant in Ireland, it has been announced.

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The coastguard has confirmed that it has concluded its search for a ferry passenger, believed to be missing off the coast of Wexford.