Events have been taking place across the country to mark National Commemoration Day

A teenager’s detailed portrait of her brother, carefully executed with colouring pencils and white gel pen, has taken the top prize at this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Competition.

The gig will also feature special guests, Rancid.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is today hosting all-island discussions on the fallout from Brexit.

Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has called on the Irish Government to represent all Irish citizens when Brexit negotiations kick in.

Architects working in the public sector have been hailed after civic schemes scooped the top three awards in the popular vote section of Ireland’s architecture Oscars.

Four out of 10 people have trouble reading, understanding, and acting on health information, a major conference on tackling health inequalities was told.

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President Michael D Higgins led the nation in memory of those who died in overseas service and on UN missions.

One-year-old Tegan, with her parents Tina and Michael, is among the cochlear-implant patients featured in The Sound Barrier on RTÉ One on Tuesday.

The Oireachtas banking inquiry did not sit in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham yesterday. It did not hear from a witness by the name of Jean Claude Trichet, the former head of the European Central Bank (ECB).

Trichet already knows the questions he will be asked.

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Beck has announced a gig at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin.

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The Dublin band will play two major Irish concerts this year.

Tributes to Ireland’s war dead were led by President Michael D Higgins at a solemn ceremony of remembrance.

Biffy Clyro are playing Live at the Marquee tonight and have decided to do something very nice for their fans in Cork

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Kasabian and Primal Scream have been announced as headliners for the Forbidden Fruit festival in Dublin.

Irish food producers have shown great ingenuity in identifying new business opportunities and managing costs in recent years, according to Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney.

TONIGHT, a 77-year-old man will take to the stage in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham and receive a rapturous reception.

Two UK concerts by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen have been switched to a different venue 45 miles away.

Leonard Cohen was coaxed back on to the stage by a tribute gig in Ireland, his impresario has revealed.

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The company putting the world’s most expensive gold coin on display has been rapped by advertising watchdogs.

China’s vice president Xi Jinping will end his trade-boosting visit to Ireland today.

Former US president Bill Clinton will join hundreds of influential figures from the Irish diaspora for a major economic forum in Dublin next month, it has been announced.

Irish men and women who lost their lives in battle are being commemorated today.

THE Europa League trophy was officially handed over to the city of Dublin yesterday, the ceremony in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham a reminder that the finals of Europe’s premier club competitions are now only two games away.

OVER 1.2 million people in Ireland are aged over 50, have billions of euro to spend, are well resourced and optimistic and upbeat about their future.

IT was fitting that Bertie Ahern’s confused political career should end at a gathering of the O’Donovan Rossa Fianna Fáil cumann — whose mythical past and fundraising techniques helped define him.

A ceremony in memory of all Irish men and women who died in past wars or on service with the United Nations is underway in Dublin.

PHARMACEUTICAL company Abbott Vascular and Cavan County Council were announced as the overall winners of the O2 Ability Awards in Dublin last night.

IRELAND’S suicide rate is at its lowest since 1993 when it was decriminalised, the HSE’s National Office for Suicide Prevention’s (NOSP) latest report reveals.