Kevin Kilbane launches HSE Community Games in AthloneThousands of participants and supporters to take part over two weekendsSun Aug 16 2015 - 10:18
100 years ago today: The Irish rugby ‘Pals’ slaughtered at Gallipoli7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers suffered terribly in failed attack on Turkish positionsSat Aug 15 2015 - 16:47
100 years ago today - an Irish Division lands at Suvla BayA hundred years ago, Irish soldiers fought at Gallipoli, and suffered terrible lossesSat Aug 15 2015 - 16:47
Seamus O’Hara optimistic about Irish craft beer industry’s futureFounder of Carlow Brewing Company sees potential for further significant growthFri Aug 14 2015 - 07:30
Ray D’Arcy chat show to spearhead RTÉ’s autumn scheduleVeteran presenter to vie for guests and ratings with the Late Late ShowFri Aug 14 2015 - 01:00
Former Tory minister Michael Portillo to make film on RisingDocumentary to be made for RTÉ to tell story of 1916 rebellion from British perspectiveThu Aug 13 2015 - 20:26
A guide to watching the spectacular meteor showersAnnual celestial extravaganza will reach its peak after midnightThu Aug 13 2015 - 15:29
Bullet For My Valentine: 'We are a heavy metal band. We always have been'Michael Paget from Welsh metallers Bullet For My Valentine takes time out from their US tour with Slipknot to talk about new album 'Venom', their upcoming Irish and UK dates, and what Corey Taylor is like when the mask is downThu Aug 13 2015 - 14:18
Music is beneficial to surgery patients, study findsMusic can reduce pain and anxiety during the surgical process, ‘the Lancet’ reportsThu Aug 13 2015 - 01:00
Sun comes out as Roses make their first public appearanceThe 32 hopefuls vying to be Rose of Tralee have stories of triumph and tragedy to tellWed Aug 12 2015 - 01:00
West support for ‘Charlie Hebdo’ seen as ‘triumphalist hatred’Blasphemy expert tells Parnell Summer School that an entire community was stigmatisedTue Aug 11 2015 - 01:00
Intervention in Greek crisis seen as France’s ‘vocation’Parnell Summer School told France has always had a sense of its own importanceTue Aug 11 2015 - 01:00
Life is a rollercoaster for 93-year-old ex-RAF airmanWicklow-based Ted Veal was the sole survivor of a bomber which crashed in ItalyMon Aug 10 2015 - 12:32
The Irish eyewitness to the atomic bomb at NagasakiDr Aidan MacCarthy was in POW camp: ‘I thought we had arrived at Judgement Day’Sun Aug 09 2015 - 18:13
Cheers fill RDS grandstand as Ireland reclaims Aga Khan trophyFirst Irish win for three years brings return to good old days of showjumpingSat Aug 08 2015 - 01:00
Irish team captures Aga Khan Trophy at Dublin Horse ShowRides by Allen, O’Connor, Broderick and Kenny secure first Nations Cup in three yearsFri Aug 07 2015 - 19:07
IFA seeks tax breaks for rural businessesGovernment must help if a ‘two-tier recovery’ is to be avoided, IFA president Eddie Downey saysThu Aug 06 2015 - 21:50
Style contest a black-and-white affair at Dublin Horse ShowLaura Jayne Halton scoops Ladies’ Day prize at RDS with monochrome dress and capeThu Aug 06 2015 - 19:47
The Galway nun who witnessed the atomic bomb drop at HiroshimaSr Julia Canny: ‘Everywhere people lay either dying or dead from the flash of radiation’Thu Aug 06 2015 - 10:48
Dublin Horse Show ticket sales ‘very strong’, says RDS chiefEvery corporate hospitality package sold out weeks ago for the five days of the RDS showThu Aug 06 2015 - 01:00
Dublin Horse Show opening day to draw crowds to RDSEvent features rising talent Bertram Allen and Michael Bloomberg’s daughter GeorginaTue Aug 04 2015 - 21:52
Sligo man Matt Kivlehan stabbed to death, postmortem findsTwo held over death of musician (59) as gardaí treat incident as murder caseTue Aug 04 2015 - 14:17
Gardaí investigate after body found with stab wounds in SligoRemains of man (59), found in apartment on Holborn Street on Monday afternoonTue Aug 04 2015 - 00:23
Giant Minion escapes to cause road incident in DublinIncident referred to planners after 10 metre inflatable falls onto oncoming trafficMon Aug 03 2015 - 22:21
Heavy weather: Met Éireann issues bank holiday warningHoliday alerts for Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, Cork, Kerry, LimerickMon Aug 03 2015 - 11:15
Roma community in Ireland marks the ‘forgotten Holocaust’Extermination of their people was only officially recognised in 1982Mon Aug 03 2015 - 01:00
O’Donovan Rossa remembered 100 years after funeralPearse graveside oration regarded as a rallying cry for republicanismSat Aug 01 2015 - 15:10
Sinn Féin accused of undermining Rising programmeParty defends parallel event commemorating Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa’s funeralSat Aug 01 2015 - 01:00
‘The Irish Times’ report on O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral in 1915‘Mr P Pearse delivered a panegyric. He said that he spoke on behalf of a new generation’Fri Jul 31 2015 - 17:35
Easter Rising leaders spied on in days before O’Donovan Rossa funeralChief Secretary to Ireland told police there must be ‘no interference’ in funeralFri Jul 31 2015 - 01:00
Ryan Tubridy returning to morning slot on RTÉ Radio 1Tubridy states he has ‘mixed emotions’ about leaving 2fm after five yearsThu Jul 30 2015 - 17:19
The weather is just shocking, isn't it? Just shocking.Wet, cold and miserable conditions to continue for the rest of month and into AugustWed Jul 29 2015 - 17:11
Easter 1916: ‘They put their country first’Sheila O’Leary may be the last living person whose parents were both in GPO during RisingMon Jul 13 2015 - 01:00
Priest tells mourners ‘the violence is now at our own door’Funeral of Larry and Martina Hayes, killed in Tunisian attack, brings Athlone to standstillFri Jul 03 2015 - 20:24
Community devastated by killing of Larry and Martina HayesCouple’s deaths ‘almost impossible to come to terms with’, Athlone funeral mass hearsFri Jul 03 2015 - 15:38
AC/DC at the Aviva Stadium | Live ReviewBells, cannons, a giant pneumatic lady and one giant hit after another - we will never see the likes of this band againThu Jul 02 2015 - 16:23
June was Dublin’s driest in 40 yearsIreland experiencing mini heatwave but fine weather expected to break by weekendThu Jul 02 2015 - 12:34
‘AC/DC’s music is the best antidepressant there is’AC/DC biographer Jesse Fink on the difficulties of telling the story of Angus, Malcolm and George YoungWed Jul 01 2015 - 12:00
Ministers to attend Battle of the Somme eventsCharlie Flanagan and Heather Humphreys will take part in anniversary ceremoniesTue Jun 30 2015 - 21:44
Romantic Irish package holiday aimed at LGBT market in US10-day trip, which includes Blarney Castle and Cliffs of Moher, will cost €5,150 per personMon Jun 29 2015 - 19:58
Easter Rising international commemoration programme unveiledLondon, Paris, New York and Buenos Aires among cities where events will take placeMon Jun 29 2015 - 17:48
On 1916, and why Michael Collins ‘was a pup’Eoghan Plunkett comes from a storied family involved in the Easter RisingMon Jun 29 2015 - 01:00
Famous Irish soldier’s WW1 grave may hold different remainsResting place of first World War ‘boy soldier’ outside Ypres debated by Belgian teacherSun Jun 28 2015 - 12:46
How many were really ‘out’ for Easter Rising 1916?Military Pensions Archive publishes list of all those who were involved in Easter WeekWed Jun 24 2015 - 16:30
Eimear Walsh funeral Mass told of ‘wonderful daughter ’Father tells hundreds of mourners Eimear was fun-loving but also independent mindedTue Jun 23 2015 - 16:23
Eimear Walsh’s father recalls ‘kind-hearted, generous’ womanJim Walsh speaks of trauma of having to bring home ‘our beloved daughter and sister’Tue Jun 23 2015 - 14:16
Berkeley: First Dublin funerals take place todayServices will be held for balcony collapse victims Eoghan Culligan and Eimear WalshTue Jun 23 2015 - 08:48
Trail of 1916 Easter Rising sites launched to boost tourismFour new routes trace historic themes of Dublin through the agesMon Jun 22 2015 - 17:29
Berkeley tragedy: Remains of Olivia Burke arrive in DublinMore than 30 students living in the Library Gardens also return home for the funeralsMon Jun 22 2015 - 13:01
Berkeley tragedy: Funerals of four of the students who died in California to begin on TuesdayHundreds attended the joint funeral for Ashley Donohoe and her cousin Olivia Burke, in northern CaliforniaSun Jun 21 2015 - 20:17
