Ireland’s theatre world is mourning the loss of Mick Lally, one of its most renowned actors.
The 64-year-old star of stage and screen died in hospital after a short illness.
Taoiseach Brian Cowen led tributes to the former teacher, who was most famous for his role as Miley Byrne in the long-running television series Glenroe.
“He [...]

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan tonight stood accused of presiding over the most expensive bank bailout in the world as nationalised Anglo Irish Bank reported €8.2 billion losses.
The massive blackhole for the first half of the year was twice as bad as experts predicted, prompting calls for the Government to pull the [...]

Members of the tourism industry in Northern Ireland have reacted furiously to Australia’s decision to issue a travel warning for would-be visitors.
The advice from Canberra provoked fury from the North Coast to the lakes of Fermanagh and the Mourne Mountains, Co Down.
Earlier this year, police said the danger from dissidents was at its worst since [...]

The parents of a murdered 12-year-old girl said tonight it was their worst fear to “lose a child so full of life”.
Brendan and Deirdre Davis said they were desperately trying to get their heads around the killing of their daughter Michaela.
Her body was discovered in undergrowth by a man walking along the Royal Canal in [...]

Irish regional airline Aer Arann was tonight put under examinership after suffering 18 million euro losses since 2008.
The company said it had been on course to meet budget targets this year but was badly hit by the volcanic ash crisis.
The High Court in Dublin intervened to protect the business ahead of a full examination of [...]

The London Rose, Clare Kambamettu has been crowned the 2010 International Rose of Tralee. This is the second year running that the London Rose has taken the honour.
The 26-year-old psychologist was born in Leeds but moved with her parents back to her mother’s native county of Kildare at the age of eight.
Speaking after [...]

International ratings agency Standard & Poor have downgraded Ireland’s credit rating from AA to AA-, a move that has been criticised by the Director of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA).
Standard & Poor said the rising cost of bailing out the banking sector was behind the decision. This is Ireland’s lowest rating since 1995.
The downgrading [...]

Four teenagers, including two brothers, were killed and a fifth left fighting for his life after a car crash in Ireland.
Kevin Breen, his brother David and his girlfriend Aine Riordan died when the 10-year-old Hyundai Accent careered off the road and ploughed into an oak tree.
Their friend Brian Coffey died later in [...]

Outraged relatives of a notorious IRA bombing which claimed nine lives demanded a fresh investigation after it emerged the police, Government and Catholic Church conspired to protect the prime suspect, a Catholic priest.
As well as the dead, 30 people were injured when three car bombs shattered the tranquillity of the village of [...]

Julia Gillard’s campaign has received a well-needed boost in support from further a field than her PR gurus could have hoped for, after a group of Irish Labour Party activists began canvassing in Dublin this week for their counterparts down under.
Dan O’Neill and co. have been putting up posters around the city centre and campaigning [...]