A West Cork ferry company has been chosen to transport the Dutch royal couple on a VIP river and harbour voyage in Cork City this week.

We have got to break their stranglehold and make birth safe in Ireland. For my daughter. For all our daughters, writes Victoria White

The University of Limerick (UL) has cancelled sexual consent workshops due to lack of interest.

A national concussion strategy is needed to identify and manage concussions across all sports in Ireland, according to scientists studying the condition.

Dublin’s Spire acts like a super-sized ‘Google Maps’ pin to locate this compact Dublin city centre hotel on O’Connell Street, one which had housed five homeless families until they were rehomed in late July.

A 66-year-old Dublin man has been sent forward for trial accused of wrecking the historic wooden front gate of Trinity College Dublin.

An additional endangerment of life charge has been brought against a 66-year-old Dublin man charged with wrecking the historic wooden front gate of Trinity College Dublin in April.

A West of Ireland luxury island retreat developed a cost of over €9m by Nadim Sadek — who appeared on the Secret Millionaire programme last year — has been sold by a receiver for over €2.85m.

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New HSE chief Tony O’Brien has defended his absence from the authority’s announcement of the latest raft of health cuts.

The country’s highest-earning academics have snubbed a request by Education Minister Ruairi Quinn to take a voluntary pay cut to benefit the State.

I’VE been catching up with the affordable end of two old-school wine wholesalers who supply independent wine stores.

OVER €80 million had been invested in cancer research here over the past decade by the Health Research Board (HRB), a world conference on the life-threatening disease was told in Dublin yesterday.

TAXPAYERS claim more than €11 billion a year in tax breaks — 20% of the total tax-take — mostly employee tax credits and pension and housing reliefs.

RESEARCHERS in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) have discovered that blocking a particular stress response can significantly reduce the spread of breast cancer.

A FORMER leader of the Seanad brought a close to the election count by imploring newly elected members to fight for the continued retention of the Upper House.

AS 30,000 objectors in Cork, along with their democratically elected county council, near the tenth anniversary of their struggle against toxic incineration in Cork Harbour, we are alarmed to find no mention of incineration in the Fine Gael manifesto.

DID you find yourself listening to the radio with a grin on your face the other day?

EXPERTS have issued warnings over a new generation of head shop drugs containing “mysterious and unknown” substances which could be toxic.

STAUNCH opponents of drugs will clash with campaigners advocating the legalisation of narcotic substances at a controversial debate this evening.

A hugely influential chronicle of Irish history credited with helping to shape the modern nation went on full display today for the first time in almost four centuries.

Tommy Barker finds that this Dublin 8 property is a home within a house.

A TEAM of researchers at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has made a major breakthrough towards solving the mystery of autism.

Infamous US porno actor Ron Jeremy is to address students in Trinity College Dublin as a guest of the college's Philosophical Society.