Rose of Tralee: ‘I am gay. I hope some day I can and will be married’Maria Walsh’s feet have hardly touched the ground since winning Tralee competitionMon Sept 08 2014 - 01:00
FF questions James Reilly’s future role in GovernmentReservations about ‘unworkable’ health plan raises ‘very serious questions’ about ministerSat Sept 06 2014 - 18:26
Crowds fail to materialise at launch of Swords developmentAbout two dozen people queue to buy houses at Millers GlenSat Sept 06 2014 - 18:26
Rose of Tralee says festival did not know she was gayMaria Walsh says she had ‘nothing to hide’ and would have told judges if askedSat Sept 06 2014 - 15:07
Irish craft beer market on course for sales of more than €15mBooming sector has almost tripled in size since 2011 as customers seek more choiceFri Sept 05 2014 - 12:54
Supreme Court judge says Strasbourg has ‘very serious questions’ over new roleAdrian Hardiman says European Court of Human Rights meant to be court of last resortFri Sept 05 2014 - 01:01
Rose of Tralee critics ‘faux intellectuals’ - festival headAnthony O’Gara accuses detactors of peddling ‘flagrant verbal rubbish’Thu Sept 04 2014 - 17:11
National Library at ‘critical point’ as cutbacks hit servicesLibrary director says extra €1.25m needed to maintain facilitiesThu Sept 04 2014 - 01:00
O’Driscoll makes ‘Guinness Book of Records’ appearanceFormer Ireland centre finished his career with 141 appearancesThu Sept 04 2014 - 01:00
Humphreys declines to comment on Bruton’s 1916 Rising remarksMinister says not her role to interpret merits of one historical event over anotherWed Sept 03 2014 - 16:16
Drogheda consultant apologises for death of patientOur Lady of Lourdes specialist apologises for failure of doctors to provide timely diagnosisMon Sept 01 2014 - 20:07
First of Syrian refugees arrive in IrelandSeventeen people, including some seriously ill, among 90 the State will take in this yearFri Aug 29 2014 - 20:47
Gates open for the biggest Electric Picnic festivalSome 40,000 music fans expected to attend sold-out event this weekendFri Aug 29 2014 - 19:23
Rare footage of Padraig Pearse to be shown in new filmOration at the grave of O’Donovan Rossa in 1915 was filmed for posterityFri Aug 29 2014 - 17:51
Boxty a metaphor for huge potential of Shannon-Erne regionCo Leitrim is putting its faith in potato bread, tourism, stags and hensFri Aug 29 2014 - 01:00
Service recalls rearguard stand by Royal Munster FusiliersSoldiers from Cork, Limerick, Kerry and Clare killed in Great War 100 years ago todayWed Aug 27 2014 - 18:10
2fm presenter Louise McSharry diagnosed with cancer31-year-old broadcaster says she is confident she will beat Hodgkin’s lymphomaWed Aug 27 2014 - 13:54
Legendary rearguard WW1 stand by Munster Fusiliers to be remembered tomorrowThe action at Etreux by Irish soldiers helped save the British Army from annihilationTue Aug 26 2014 - 01:00
Rose of Tralee head hints judges knew of winner’s sexualityAnthony O’Gara says Maria Walsh was ‘openly gay, there was no secret there’Mon Aug 25 2014 - 20:28
Rose heartened by response to revelations that she is gayFestival describes Philadelphia Rose as a ‘very worthy winner who happens to be gay’Mon Aug 25 2014 - 07:17
Mons commemorates soldiers who died 100 years agoAmong the fatalities was Maurice Dease, an Irish recipient of the Victoria CrossMon Aug 25 2014 - 01:00
Two State agencies told of fears for woman in abortion caseSupport group says Department of Justice and HSE were told of concernsMon Aug 25 2014 - 01:00
New Rose of Tralee speaks of her confidence as a gay womanMaria Walsh says annual event celebrates women and their intelligence and workSun Aug 24 2014 - 13:59
First Educate Together secondary school opensBallymakenny College in Drogheda hopes to expand to 1,000 pupils within seven yearsSat Aug 23 2014 - 16:07
100 years ago today: the Irish soldier who won the Great War’s first Victoria CrossMaurice Dease, a Royal Fusiliers lieutenant from Co Westmeath, died on the first day of British fighting in the conflictSat Aug 23 2014 - 01:00
First WWI Victoria Cross winner to get memorial in GlasnevinLieutenant Maurice Dease from Westmeath was killed at the Battle of MonsFri Aug 22 2014 - 16:56
Morning after the night before for the new Rose of TraleePhiladelphia Rose lives up to her favourites’ tag by becoming the 56th Rose of TraleeThu Aug 21 2014 - 08:25
Philadelphia Rose crowned 2014 Rose of TraleeNative of Boston who moved to Mayo, Maria Walsh ‘absolutely shocked’ by the resultWed Aug 20 2014 - 00:24
Abu Dhabi Rose favourite to take the tiara in Tralee tonightDarwin Rose reveals mother previously kicked out of competition as she had a childTue Aug 19 2014 - 14:08
Rose host Ó Sé plays it ice-cool when faced with challengeHost Dáithí Ó Sé gamely agrees to accept the ice bucket challenge live on air in TraleeTue Aug 19 2014 - 01:51
Happy couple back in Tralee one year after marriage proposalMolly Molloy Gambel flabbergasted by on-air proposal during Rose of Tralee last yearMon Aug 18 2014 - 16:18
Hurling brings delight and dismay to the Rose of TraleeCork contestant watches as her side suffer 10 point drubbing at the hands of TipperarySun Aug 17 2014 - 19:01
Complaint of bias on same-sex marriage upheld against RTÉBroadcasting watchdog says Derek Mooney should have offered alternative viewpointThu Aug 14 2014 - 16:48
Public inconvenience: Unused toilet in Dublin 4 demolishedFacility at junction of Anglesea Road and Merrion Road one of 70 once operated in DublinWed Aug 13 2014 - 13:52
Roses set to wind on through hills ahead of Tralee festivalNow in its 55th year, the Rose of Tralee’s place in the Irish calendar is secureTue Aug 12 2014 - 16:31
Jessica Springsteen proves she’s the boss in Aga KhanBruce Springsteen’s daughter was part of team that clinched trophy at Dublin Horse ShowFri Aug 08 2014 - 20:49
Is this the only picture of James Connolly from the Easter Rising?Photograph of man on a stretcher surfaced in eBay auction 10 years agoFri Aug 08 2014 - 09:57
British urgently want the blood of Irish peopleNHS say it is ‘vital’ that Irish people in Britain step forward to donate bloodFri Aug 08 2014 - 01:00
Irish director backs festival boycott over Israeli sponsorshipLenny Abrahamson ‘fully supports’ theatre’s decision to decline Jewish Film Festival screeningThu Aug 07 2014 - 15:26
Electric Picnic to host suicide prevention eventRestauranteur Derry Clarke says he wants to ‘save other families from grief’Thu Aug 07 2014 - 14:20
Amon Amarth: Metal is a form of physical and revolutionary expressionAhead of Viking metallers Amon Amarth’s Dublin show, frontman Johann Hegg talks about music, Norse mythology and his love of Irish epic metallers PrimordialThu Aug 07 2014 - 10:42
Gabriel Byrne gets married in ‘small private ceremony’Irish actor marries his long-term girlfriend in Co CorkWed Aug 06 2014 - 15:56
Irish nun witnessed dropping of Hiroshima bomb in 1945Julia Canny was just 2kms away from where the bomb dropped 69 years ago todayWed Aug 06 2014 - 15:27
Local historian seeks answers to perplexing question about the number of Irish war dead49,400 names are recorded in Ireland’s Memorial RecordsTue Aug 05 2014 - 01:02
Ó Cuív says Bruton’s remarks about Easter Rising ‘delusional’Former FF minister says Britain would not have conceded independence without a fightMon Aug 04 2014 - 19:29
German president condemns his country’s invasion of Belgium in 1914Joachim Gauck said his country’s invasion had been ‘completely unjustifiable’Mon Aug 04 2014 - 13:36
Former taoiseach says Easter Rising ‘unnecessary’John Bruton calls on Government to mark 100th anniversary of Home RuleMon Aug 04 2014 - 07:42
Gardaí review security breach at Glasnevin WW1 eventBehaviour of Republican protesters described as a ‘total and utter disgrace’Mon Aug 04 2014 - 07:17
Pro-Cathedral service remembers Irish dead in WW1First time that a Catholic commemoration service held in the church since 1972Sun Aug 03 2014 - 14:56