Galway champions will meet Mayo’s Castlebar Mitchels in decider

Firm has raised $15m in past year with backers including Dermot Desmond’s IIU

Diverse voices, childhood and darkness, from radio to page

In the first, Diakali ran well to ease home in the Rathbarry & Glenview Studs Hurdle

Recruitment company Jobbio raises €5m as it plans to grow in New York and Canada

Tractors, tarts and GAA paraphernalia are just some of the varied offerings

Det Garda shot dead by IRA during an attempted post office van robbery in Adare

Great granddaughter of 1916 rebel leaves flowers for first policeman to die in Rising

Bank of Ireland to buy Lone Star home loans; Nama set to offload Gresham Hotel

For their collaboration commemorating the Rising at the NCH, Colm Tóibín and Donnacha Dennehy have focused on the uneasy time when Casement and Conrad shared quarters in the Belgian colony

Among the gems uncovered in this show on Leitrim’s music heritage are a song from Turlough O’Carolan and a forgotten star of the New York stage

Louth County Council evicts 23 families from halting site due to health and safety concerns

Balderton chief Barry Maloney joins board as company gears up for international expansion

The 15th-century Norman tower Thoor Ballylee was home to the poet and his family for 12 years. An auction is planned to raise funds to turn it into a cultural centre

This week we look at the three finalists who made the grade in the energy and environment category for this year’s ‘Irish Times’ InterTradeIreland Innovation awards

Quinn brothers aim to grow the online jobs marketplace outside Ireland

Leopardstown officials not expecting any weather problems for Sunday’s action

Minister describes incident as ‘attack on the whole community in all of its diversity’