The global community needs to come together to tackle climate change in 2020, according to the President of Ireland.

After failing to score for Dublin in the drawn All-Ireland final, Ciarán Kilkenny required less than 90 seconds to get his first point of the replay.

The voice that ends the season is unmistakable, even ordering a pot of tea.

Noah Smith In 1953, mountaineers Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first confirmed summiting of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak.

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

If an Irish tech company has its way, online gaming could soon be a regular feature of the school curriculum.

Not so very long ago, Mayo footballers took to the stage like Beyoncé; all angel wings, backing singers and brass bands.

There were four big football games on Saturday evening, three blowout wins for Meath, Dublin and Tyrone, and one thoroughly enthralling contest in Castlebar.

Declan Burke reviews Birds of Passage, The Hustle and John Wick: Parabellum

Mayo fans began queuing in the rain outside Gaelic Park in the Bronx before 8am this morning in an effort to get tickets for the Connacht SFC clash against New York.

The enormous success of Hamilton has underlined the enduring appeal of musical theatre. Marjorie Brennan selects the best shows of the year ahead.

From spectacular fireworks in Hong Kong and Australia to a huge LED light show at the world's tallest building in Dubai, here is a look at how revellers around the world have welcomed in 2018:

A man accused of intentionally mowing down pedestrians on a Times Square pavement, killing a woman and injuring 22 other people, has pleaded not guilty.

A man charged with slamming his speeding car into pedestrians in Times Square should have been shot by police to stop him, a prosecutor said.

A man accused of steering his car on to one of the busiest pavements in the US and mowing down pedestrians has been charged with murder and attempted murder.

An 18-year-old woman killed by a car that barrelled down a pavement in New York's Times Square was a tourist, police said.

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"People had to wait five days to get a table just to see the show."

Walking from a snow-capped Madison Square Garden to Times Square with Michael Conlan only a year ago would have taken all of 10 minutes.

Vic O’Sullivan took his son for the ultimate ‘dad and lad’ trip of a lifetime to New York.

New Year’s celebrations across the world ushered in 2017 with dazzling fireworks displays and crowded streets amid tightened security measures for the festivities.

Rome calling

It’s hard silenced, New York. But, on the early morning commute to downtown Manhattan on Wednesday, you could mark that as another odds-scorching upset for the man who somehow, someway will become leader of this land in the much too near future.

It takes a very brave person to blindfold themselves and hand strangers a razor and a pair of scissors to strangers on New York's Times Square.

Iron Man, the Hulk and Anna from Frozen were arrested for accosting tourists in New York City's Times Square, demanding cash and refusing to give them change.

Sebastian ErraZuriz makes furniture and artworks that prompt you to step back and look again, says Carol O’Callaghan.

Cat videos pretty much rule the internet, and now they're moving in on our public spaces too!

1 Classic couture

Life (15A) opens in 1955, with Nick Ray’s East of Eden about to be released on an unsuspecting public and James Dean (Dane DeHaan) just another Hollywood unknown. 

It became an iconic image, the day football changed forever. 

With its thumb raised skyward and a grin on its digital face, the robotic creation of two researchers in Canada is hitchhiking across the US.

Cathy Desmond took a bite of the Big Apple some thirty years ago — and now that she’s back for more, she finds a calmer, quieter place.

Everywhere I turn recently, somebody somewhere is prescribing the antidote for the terminal ills of gaelic football. But I’m not so sure the sickness is as widespread and as life-threatening as has been suggested, writes Michael Quirke.

Idina Menzel has defended her ability to perform live.