Eastertide, and time for a longish walk-a-day for three days. We are promised blue skies and warm sunshine all over Ireland but it doesn’t happen here in West Cork.

‘She made them laugh’, would make a good epitaph for Charlotte Bingham, with her follow up to last year’s fictionised memoir about her time, in the 50s, working for MI5, writes Sue Leonard

UK firefighters tackled a series of blazes across Britain during record-breaking temperatures yesterday.

This Garinish at Glengarriff Co Cork, is one of four to share the name in the country.

Severe weather is causing continued disruption to travel in Scotland, with dozens of drivers stuck in a snowdrift.

Georgia Humphreys talks to some of those involved in the major plotlines of season seven

The minister for the environment, Ray Burke, received a stinging reply from his British counterpart after calling for the closure of the Sellafield nuclear processing plant in 1987, writes Seán McCárthaigh    

Night herons have nested for the first time in Britain. A pair raised two chicks at Westhay Moor nature reserve in Somerset. 

Joe Schmidt decided Rhys Ruddock was the obvious man to be promoted from the ranks earlier this summer when the Lions expedition relieved him of his usual on-field generals for the tour to the USA and Japan.

A terrorist bomb-maker who infiltrated the British military should receive a tougher sentence, a former armed forces minister has said.

Warehouse workers at retail giant Argos are to stage a three-week strike in a dispute over redundancy arrangements.

After college in Dublin, Orlagh worked in the production department for various films, then she left for London and worked in the city in IT recruitment.

“If the written word could cure rheumatism I think hers might, like a dock leaf laid on a sting”

The clean-up operation of Glastonbury Festival 2017 has begun as revellers return home from the five-day extravaganza.

Mary Arrigan has got some great ideas about books for the young-ones.

Dozens of people have been treated by paramedics on the hottest ever day of Glastonbury Festival.

The father of one of four crew members who died when the Cheeki Rafiki capsized mid-Atlantic has told a court of the "harrowing" moment when he found out his son had been lost at sea.

A woman who used to work on the shop floor of her estranged millionaire husband's factory has been awarded £73m by a divorce court judge.

The wife of British Royal Marine Alexander Blackman, who fatally shot an injured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan, has spoken of her joy at the prospect of him coming home in a few weeks.

A collector has been convicted of capturing, killing and possessing specimens of Britain's rarest butterfly - the Large Blue.

Butterflies and bees have struggled in the latest year of a decade of unsettled weather, the National Trust has said.

China has made its first investment in Ireland’s energy market, with the European arm of its state-owned nuclear development company China General Nuclear (CGN) agreeing to buy 14 wind farms from Irish renewable energy group Gaelectric.

9am, and I am standing outside Vanessa’s flat in Brixton, checking my phone for messages left on the “Siblings” Whatsapp group that my London sister created in order to organise my mother’s 80th birthday party.

Energy Minister Denis Naughten is to keep in contact with Britain over the controversial new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point — but he says expert analysis shows there is nothing to fear from the facility.

The weather has improved; the butterflies are flying.

Police in the North are conducting fresh searches as part of a terrorism investigation which prompted the arrest of a British Royal Marine.

A Royal Marine is being questioned by UK detectives investigating Northern Ireland-linked terrorism, understood to be connected to two major dissident republican arms finds.

A serving member of the British armed forces has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism linked to Northern Ireland.

Our picks of what to watch on TV.

Once during the recent very warm weather, standing at a country crossroads trying to make up my mind which way I’d go, I found my boots stuck in the tar. I almost had to reach down to lift and unglue them.

A man from Bristol has been charged with attempted murder after being extradited from Ireland.

C&C has been urged by trade unions to find a buyer for one of Britain’s oldest cider plants.

Irish drinks giant C&C has been urged to find a buyer for one of Britain's oldest cider plants.

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere”— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Rayvin Black is unlikely to be in action at next month’s Cheltenham Festival following his tremendous all-the-way victory in Saturday’s Kingwell Hurdle at Wincanton.

There is a fella in Britain selling jars of air for £80 a pop to the Chinese.

SIPTU has slammed as “atrocious” the treatment by C&C Group of workers at a water bottling plant in Borrisoleigh, Co Tipperary, who learned through the media that they are to lose their jobs.