Photos and video material taken inside the ‘ghost’ cargo ship MV Alta, which lies marooned on rocks in Ballycotton for almost a week, is being circulated online.

TOM Russell was recently thrilled to receive a package in the post from his old friend, Bob Dylan. Dylan had his people send his fellow songwriter a case of his new Heaven’s Door whiskey. Wrapped around the bottles were the lyrics to ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’, stylised so that it seemed Dylan had himself scribbled all over the printed words with a pen.

We live in a world where investors often operate with incredibly short time horizons.

A fundraising campaign has raised more than €1,000 for a two-year-old boy who is critically ill in the Canary Islands.

Look, we know what it’s like in Croke Park at half-time of a major game.

Timothy L O’Brien says describing Donald Trump’s racist baiting of four new Democratic congresswomen of different ethnic backgrounds as ‘strategic’ gives him too much credit.

An 18-month-old girl who fell to her death from the 11th story of a cruise ship in Puerto Rico plunged from a window left open in a children's play area, the family's lawyer has said.

Belt-laden Katie Taylor believes that a rematch with Belgium’s Delfine Persoon is inevitable

Now that the championship has kicked off, or thrown in, in earnest you can almost hear people thinking about the All-Ireland final. Winners. Losers. And most of all, tickets.

Cork-based Enterprise System Partners (ESP), which provides consulting and manufacturing services to life sciences firms around the world, has been bought by the international giant Accenture.

Katie Taylor is never one to overlook an opponent but she knows an emphatic victory in Boston tonight will make a particularly big impact on one ringside observer.

The longer a narrow and ignorant elite condemns humanity to wander in the political desert, the more likely it is we will all end up in a wasteland, writes Jeffrey Sachs.

Katie Taylor could move up a weight in 2019 if she unifies her division by the end of the year.

He might often not know what the date is, or even the month sometimes, but wherever Seamus Power finds himself on the PGA Tour, if it’s Tuesday, then it must be a practice day.

The period between Christmas and New Year is fast becoming peak season Ciara McDonnell has the best options abroad for a Twixmas break – so you can start planning for next year.

Saving and restoring tropical forests offers one of the cheapest large-scale forms of emissions abatement or capture, writes Lorenzo Bernasconi.

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President Donald Trump has given himself a "10" for his response to the widespread devastation Puerto Rico suffered after back-to-back hurricanes.

Donald Trump has said he has heard that Ireland is about to reduce its Corporation Tax rate to 8% from its current 12.5%.

President Donald Trump has criticised hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, saying the government cannot keep US federal aid there "forever".

US President Donald Trump highlighted Puerto Rico's relatively low death toll compared with "a real catastrophe like Katrina" as he saw for himself the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.

Donald Trump came face to face with hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico today after denouncing critics of the federal relief effort as "politically motivated ingrates" who need to step up their own response to the crisis.

President Donald Trump has called the gunman who killed 59 people in Las Vegas a "very, very sick individual" and suggested he was ready to discuss gun laws "as time goes by".

Donald Trump is due to meet some of the 3.4 million Puerto Ricans struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria.

Early education is seen internationally as one of the keys to breaking the cycle of poverty — wouldn’t you think that a country that has one-in-nine of its children living in consistent poverty would finally start to put a value on the things that can break that cycle, writes Fergus Finlay.

The Trump administration has declared that its relief efforts in Puerto Rico are succeeding, but people on the island said help was scarce eight days after Hurricane Maria devastated the US territory.

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Lloyd’s of London expects net losses of $4.5bn (€3.8bn) from hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which analysts said would eat into the insurer’s capital and hit its profitability.

The US president waived US federal restrictions on foreign ships' transport of cargo to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.

Mr. Worldwide is right!

Puerto Rican officials could not reach more than half their towns amid a push to evacuate tens of thousands of people over a failing dam as the disaster wrought by Hurricane Maria becomes clear.

A failing dam has sparked emergency evacuations of two towns in north-west Puerto Rico as the US territory struggled with flooding, an island-wide blackout and other dangers in Hurricane Maria's wake.

More than 15 people are dead and 20 remain missing after Hurricane Maria's direct hit on Dominica, the prime minister has said.

Hurricane Maria has intensified into a "potentially catastrophic" category five storm as it continues on a collision course with Caribbean islands already battered by Irma.

A tropical storm has formed in the Atlantic and is expected to strengthen, prompting hurricane watches for some of the Caribbean islands devastated by Hurricane Irma.

Richard Branson has shared photographs and video showing the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma on his private island Necker.

Here is a look at the impact of Hurricane Irma on individual countries and territories in the Caribbean as of tonight:

The Turks and Caicos Islands have been "pummelled" overnight by Hurricane Irma as winds of up to 175mph left death and destruction in the Atlantic.

Hurricane Jose has been upgraded to a category 3 hurricane, and it is heading for the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean.

Heavy rain and 185 mph winds lashed the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico's north-east coast on Wednesday as Hurricane Irma roared through Caribbean islands on its way to a possible hit on South Florida.

"The first thing I want to do is just sit back and relax."

Canada’s Crystal Emmanuel shone brightest at the 66th edition of the Cork City Sports last night, the 25-year-old blasting to a national record of 22.50 in a race in which Bandon’s Phil Healy broke new ground with a huge personal best of 23.32.

Two Irish architecture practices have won awards in a prestigious international competition, one for the design of a new secondary school in Donegal, the other for work on a parish hall in Malahide, north Dublin.

Ireland is among the top countries in the world for subscriptions to Netflix, the global internet TV, film, and entertainment streaming service founded in the US.