The link between climate change and Australia’s fires has been overstated. The neglect of traditional forest management practices is more to blame, says Ramesh Thakur.

The scale of Australia’s fires is biblical. They are beyond anything experienced, or at least widely highlighted, in modern times.

An Irish man living in Australia has spoken about his experience after being caught up in the wildfires ravaging the eastern coast of the country.

Ryle Dwyer examines the vital part played by one Cork man in highlighting, for the broadest international audience, the blatant contradictions of Britain’s behaviour during the two conflicts.

British Airways (BA) passengers have reported delayed and cancelled flights due to IT issues with the company's check-in systems.

The life-like pieces of Australian sculptor Sam Jinks provide one of the major exhibitions at Galway International Arts festival, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Voluntary euthanasia has become legal in an Australian state, more than 20 years after the country repealed the world's first mercy-killing law for the terminally ill.

A medical expert has quantified the greater risk to cyclists who do not wear a bike helmet.

Two Irishmen arrested in Melbourne over an “Irish roof scam” spent the cash on high-end Rolex watches and designer clothing, police allege.

A man has been killed and his wife was critically injured when they were attacked by their pet deer on a rural Australian property.

Aisling McCarthy has signed on with the Western Bulldogs for a second season in the AFL Women's league

A Dublin couple who emigrated to Australia a decade ago could be deported because their application for permanent residency could mean taxpayers there may have to pay for their son's cystic fibrosis treatment.

The 2015 Melbourne Cup was one of the most memorable in the history of “the race that stops a nation”.

Australia sweltered through its hottest month on record in January and the summer of extremes continued with wildfires razing the drought-parched south and flooding in expanses of the tropical north.

On the 20th anniversary of Dubliner Jim Stynes’ retirement from the AFL, Jack Anderson looks back at a remarkable career.

If ever there was a microcosm of the battle for hearts and minds in Australian sport, then today’s fare is it.

Ireland is facing a “skin cancer epidemic”, the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) has warned.

In exactly two weeks’ time the 2018 Australian Rules (AFL) season begins with Richmond playing Carlton at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, writes Jack Anderson.

The most senior Vatican official ever charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis has appeared in an Australian court.

Australia is a sports mad nation. With a population of 24 million, it is home to an extraordinary 90 professional men’s and women’s teams.

A former Cork city-centre hotel, with a 207-year pedigree on St Patrick’s St, is to be partly demolished and redeveloped for high-end shops use, possibly with an appeal to the likes of Zara.

An Australian state parliament has legalised voluntary euthanasia 20 years after the country repealed the world's first mercy-killing law for the terminally ill.

An Australian politician who launched an anti-scam campaign has apologised after she warned the public to “automatically” refuse people with Irish accents entry to their homes.

Blackwater Motors has expanded in Cork by opening the Volkswagen Van Centre on Model Farm Road.

Belle Gibson who claimed she beat cancer through healthy eating has now been fined for lying about charity donations.

A flu outbreak has killed seven residents of a care home for the elderly in Australia and left 116 other residents and staff sick, an official said on Friday.

Hurricane Harvey hit his coastal community "right on the nose" and left "widespread devastation", a Texas mayor said.

The news that Kilkee beach is set to remain closed for a number of days is a major setback to the local community according to a local TD.

The most senior Vatican official to be charged in connection with the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis has appeared in court in Australia for the first time.

The most senior Vatican cleric to be implicated in the Roman Catholic Church child abuse scandal has returned to Australia to stand trial on multiple charges of sexual assault from years ago.

Pope Francis' financial adviser is being charged in Australia with multiple counts of historical sexual assault, in a stunning move certain to rock the highest levels of the Holy See.

Does wine have a gender? There was a time when tasting notes would refer to a wine as feminine or masculine — a delicate fragrant chablis might be feminine but a big fruity hermitage from the Rhone would always be masculine.

A gunman who killed a man and took a woman hostage before dying in a police shoot-out had been acquitted of plotting a terror attack at a Sydney army base years earlier, Australian police said.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a shoot-out in Australia in which two men died, three police officers were injured and a female hostage was freed.

Aidan Murphy mines the events of his life, good and bad, for his poetry, writes Colette Sheridan.

Blogger Belle Gibson, who lied about beating a normally deadly brain tumour through healthy eating, exploited public generosity by falsely claiming most of her income went to charities, a judge has said.

AUSTRALIA is in the grip of a relentless and record-setting heatwave that is probably beyond the comprehension of anyone who has spent the majority of their life living in a temperate European climate.

Huge wildfires roaring across Australia's most populous state have destroyed homes, authorities say.

An Australian labour-hire company has been fined AUS$60,000 (€42,000) after a young Irish woman was scalped by a fruit-packing machine. One of her ears was also ripped off.

Police in Australia have detained five suspects who were allegedly planning a series of Christmas Day bomb attacks in the heart of the country's second largest city.