Your Monday evening news catch-up

Locals are left devastaed after popular Cork pub is destroyed by fire over the weekend, Munster Rugby’s latest signing is a bit of a gas character, burn off the easter eggs with these helpful videos, man crashes car and runs through a toy shop naked, and more. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this lunchtime.

Mon, 06 Apr, 2015 - 01:00

Greg Murphy

TOP STORY

VIDEO: Locals ‘heartbroken’ as fire destroys Cork thatched pub

A popular pub in Co Cork has been left gutted after a fire broke out at the premises over the weekend.

IRELAND

LATEST: Government's rules on Lusitania recovery 'spiteful'

The owner of the RMS Lusitania has accused the Irish Government of abandoning the shipwreck to pirates and treasure hunters after stringent rules on diving scuppered his plans for recovery.

MOST READ: Cork City Developments: Eight dynamic projects giving the city a facelift

Here are eight projects that could rejuvenate Cork City.

SPORT

LATEST: Three factors to take from last weekend's GAA action

The forthcoming return of Alan Brogan to Jim Gavin’s panel will be music to the ears of Dubliners.

MOST READ: Show him the money: Munster have signed a showman in All Black Francis Saili

Today Munster announced the recruitment of Auckland Blues and All Blacks centre Francis Saili.

ANALYSIS

MOST READ: COLM O'REGAN: With milk quotas gone are we headed for a milk boom — the Celtic Udder

WE ARE in a brave new world. The milk quota is gone. The dairy industry is now in the unusual situation of being asked to make all it can.

EXAMVIRAL

LATEST: Taylor Swift had a very intense Easter egg hunt over the festive weekend

Despite being a Grammy award-winning artist, even Taylor Swift lets her hair down over the Easter season.

MOST READ: Here are 7 easy workout videos from YouTube to help you burn off all those Easter eggs

Burn off those chocolate bunny binges with these easy at-home workouts.

WORLD

LATEST: Man 'crashes car and runs naked through Toys R Us'

A man in the UK has been charged following an incident where a man allegedly crashed his car and then ran naked through a toy shop.

MOST READ: ‘Who’s the man who raped my mother?’

Alen Muhic, who was conceived when his mother was raped by a soldier in wartime, says he would not have had the courage to search for his parents were it not for the film cameras that followed him.

BUSINESS

LATEST: Greece pledges to repay IMF loan due this week

Greece has told the International Monetary Fund that it will repay a substantial loan that is due this week.

MOST READ: AIB and BoI ‘rip off’ variable rate customers

The country’s two pillar banks have been accused of basing their recovery on the back of hard-pressed mortgage customers in what has been termed a “blatant rip-off”.

LIFESTYLE

The Prodigy: Fanning the flames

The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett tells Ed Power of his rage against the commercial makeover of their genre.

MOST READ: Why can’t we speak our native language?

As Leaving Certificate students prepare for their oral Irish tests this week and teachers meet for annual conferences, Colman Garrihy says our inability to speak our native language merits scrutiny

SHOWBIZ