An Irish woman living in Paris, Emma Kennedy has the insider’s guide to the city

What started as a steady trickle has, in the past 24 hours, become a deluge — the Irish are here en masse.

14 dead as Paris floods threaten works of art.

Rivers in Europe have burst their banks from Paris to the southern German state of Bavaria, killing six people and trapping thousands more in homes and cars.

The Seine is a 776 kilometre river which rises in North Eastern France and flows through Paris into the English Channel at Le Havre and is constantly dredged and kept clear for water activities.

Eagles Of Death Metal proclaimed “Paris we love you” as they performed in the French capital alongside U2, less than a month after their last concert was cut short by a terrorist attack in which 89 people died.

U2 have scotched rumours of a poignant return to the stage for Eagles Of Death Metal less than a month since the US rockers’ concert was targeted in the Paris terror attacks.

 

Johnny Sexton had suffered a few knockouts in his time but never one like this — sitting on a chair in a Paris suburb just off the peripherique.

From visiting cultural spots to exploring her favourite clothing label outlets, Michelle Doyle indulged her obsession with all things Swedish by visiting Stockholm in the cold of January.

Paris hopes to persuade couples to end the recent tradition of fixing padlocks to the Seine’s ageing bridges, and instead upload hashtagged selfies to a website dedicated to enduring love.

A €10m artwork by Claude Monet that was all but destroyed when a man put his fist through it is once again hanging where it belongs after a painstaking restoration.

A €10m artwork by Claude Monet all but destroyed when a man put his fist through it is once again hanging where it belongs after a painstaking restoration.

Couples have been coming to the Pont Des Artes since 2008 to attach the locks as a symbol of their undying love. Now they've gone and broken it.

Gay novelist Edmund White lived in the French capital in the 1980s, but in his new memoir he recounts that local customs were a shock to him, says Richard Fitzpatrick.

TV chef Donal Skehan has announced his engagement to his Swedish girlfriend, Sofie Larsson.

With river cruises reaching the cities and countryside ocean-going ships cannot, it’s little wonder they’re enjoying a boom, says Pól Ó Conghaile

When it was all over, when they finally followed a blushing Brian O’Driscoll down the tunnel, Eoin Reddan called the dressing-room to a halt and laid a marker for the week to come.

Location: West Cork Price: €400,000

Sixty years on, Waiting for Godot is as alluringly mysterious as ever, writes Jonathan deBurca Butler.

Kellie Brierley on what makes New Year’s Eve so special, and not just for movies

Munster take on Racing Metro at the Stade de France in Paris this afternoon. For travelling fans, October is the perfect time to visit.

Telegraph Avenue

Ah, beware the kindness of friends… Planning my journey to Paris three years ago for the game which would go down in infamy as the one touched by the ‘Hand Of Gaul’, I cheerfully followed the advice of a colleague and booked into what sounded like a nice, friendly, conveniently located hotel on the left bank of the Seine.

Rory Best’s message ahead of Ireland’s latest trip to Paris is to forget about the size of the mountain in front of them and instead concentrate on the rewards that await the men in green who prove able to conquer it.

IT’S squeaky bum time in LA.

A giant flea nurtures a passion for music in Bibo Bergeron’s computer-animated fable that teaches us to never judge a wingless, blood-sucking parasite by its spiny legs or hairy abdomen.

SHAMED former French leader Jacques Chirac has been found guilty of corruption and given a suspended jail sentence, becoming France’s first ex-president to be convicted for his crimes.

A €20 million renovation of the Musée D’Orsay in Paris has done wonders for its collection of iconic paintings, writes Alan O’Riordan

Salmon have returned to the once heavily polluted Tolka River in Dublin for the first time in 100 years.

Pete Doherty is taking waltz lessons, it has emerged.

FRANCE’S lower house voted yesterday to back President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to raise the minimum retirement age to 62, in the teeth of angry street protests and a fierce battle in parliament.

A lone thief stole five paintings worth about €100m in an overnight raid on a Paris art museum.

Five paintings including masterpieces by Picasso and Matisse were stolen from a Paris museum today.

WITH every cent counting in these recessionary times, perhaps taxpayers will not begrudge being charged for Energy Minister Eamon Ryan’s Parisian bike ride — all e4 worth of it.

Former government operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) reluctantly bows to pressure to allow his teenage daughter visit Paris with her friend.

A Claude Monet painting of a railway bridge over the river Seine sold for more than €26m at auction and set a new record for the artist, auction house Christie’s said today.

Protesters forced police to extinguish the Olympic torch amid heavy demonstrations as it set off across Paris today.

Around 3,000 French police on motorcycles, in jogging gear and on skates will protect the Olympic torch relay today as it departs from the Eiffel Tower and criss-crosses Paris amid threats of pro-Tibet protests.