This year’s championship ended on a very familiar soundtrack as Kerry collected a 39th All-Ireland title, one that will rank right up there among the sweetest in their priceless collection.

Q With recent news about US tariffs and wider economic concerns, I’m worried about the potential impact on my pension. Should I be doing anything right now?

As a title, ‘The Oldest Busker on Grafton Street’ might not chime with a lot of musicians. It’s just a street in Dublin after all. A street, with a doorway, in the wind and the rain for a balladeer to ...

We’re a decade on from our historic referendum on marriage equality and the groundbreaking Gender Recognition Act that followed shortly afterwards (and which tends to be overshadowed by the former).

It was a tough week for Ursula von der Leyen. Sadly, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban – who was never, ever, going to do her a favour – touched a nerve when he dubbed the EU Commission ...

Parents face childcare fee hikes as three major providers are set to pull out of the Government’s Core Funding scheme.

There’s something about being just inches away from an 18-foot giraffe that’s truly arresting. Everyone knows giraffes are extremely tall, of course, but it’s a different thing entirely to stand next ...

Repeat winners are a regular feature around Galway and the weekend at Ballybrit always sees a few horses bidding to double, or sometimes treble-up before a hectic week’s racing concludes.

For a couple of years before I retired, I knew the day was coming when I would have to quit. The devastating loss of close family members, the impact of the Creeslough tragedy in Co Donegal, and some ...

West Galway, Dublin city and Co Carlow were the most expensive areas to rent a property for the August bank holiday weekend, an Irish Independent survey of short-term lets has found.

I think it will be a clash between the political will and the administrative won’t.” Thus, the writers of the scalpel-sharp British television comedy series Yes Minister and its successor Yes, Prime ...