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An emergency EU foreign ministers' meeting called to discuss Donald Trump's shock US election victory has been snubbed by Britain's Boris Johnson.

The search is on for Ireland’s most loveable tree. Finalists for the inaugural National Tree Huggers Contest have been selected from across the country.

SILENCE, the movie by Cork-born film-maker Pat Collins, is in the cinemas at present.

Ireland goes to the polls tomorrow to vote on the European Fiscal Treaty – the only country to give its electorate a say on the controversial charter.

Michael Fewer’s Ireland: People, Places, Walking and Wildlife

THERE’S something special about landing on an island, whether you arrive by causeway or by bridge, by air, by ferry or other boat, by swimming, or swing by an island via a cable-car — and you’ve all those choices on offer for Ireland’s hundreds of islands.

FERRIES and a helicopter carried ballot papers to the first of 2,600 island residents voting in the general election. Islanders in Donegal South-West and Mayo voted two days ahead of tomorrow’s mainland poll.

Two more people arrested by British police investigating disorder during the tuition fee demonstrations were in custody today.

OVER half a million people last night attended galleries, museums and cultural spaces around the country for Ireland’s biggest ever Culture Night.

REPORTS that Senator Ivor Callely has been paid more than €80,000 since 2007 in respect of travel expenses from an address in west Cork to Leinster House is a further example of the greedy behaviour that vexes voters so intensely that it cost Peter Robinson and many other outgoing MPs their parliamentary seats in the recent British general election.

Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin will meet Northern Secretary Shaun Woodward today but a breakthrough on policing and justice does not look imminent, Stormont sources have said.

THE High Court has put a valuation of €46,000 on a man’s island holiday home which “disappeared” while he was abroad.

The High Court has awarded a film maker whose Co Donegal island holiday home "disappeared" while he was abroad €46,000.

IT is a sign of the times — and a tribute to the political deftness of Ireland’s man in London, David Cooney — that the embassy in Britain will hold its first reception at a Conservative party conference this autumn.

A 17-YEAR-OLD student from Tory island off Donegal won a prize in an EU-wide translation competition.

A Sinn Féin MP will become the first member of his party to take part in a debate during the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool today.

AN investigation into the grounding on Tory Island of the wooden schooner used in the RTÉ reality game show, Cabin Fever, found clear breaches of marine regulations.

A sailing ship which ran aground while being used for an Irish reality television show sank because crew and contestants were tired after a late night out, it emerged today.

Boris Johnson was axed as shadow arts minister and Tory party vice-chairman tonight following fresh allegations about his private life, a spokesman for party leader Michael Howard said.

IAIN DUNCAN SMITH was supported by a grim-faced shadow cabinet last night as he gave his farewell speech.

CABIN Fever contestants will be told today whether they should pack their life jackets once more or drop anchor on their sailing careers for good.

HE’S the Englishman with sore feet who travelled the length and breadth of Ireland in boots not made for walking.

Islanders living off the Co Donegal coast will be the first to cast the votes in the general election this morning.