Dublin have been set a clear target to insulate themselves from relegation for the second time in four years - beat Galway by at least four points in their final Division 1 game in Salthill next weekend.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said there is “no strong evidence” to show that Irish airspace is being used by the United States as part of its war on Iran.

MetroLink is in negotiations with landowners to buy up land along the proposed route for the underground railway, with individual deals expected to be subject to non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) so prices paid for land will be kept secret.

Micheál Martin is “looking forward” to playing a prominent role in Philadelphia’s St Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday.

A teenager suffered serious injuries after being stabbed when a row erupted at a birthday party in Cork.

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“A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all,” said Paul Cézanne, while Vincent van Gogh said: “I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘He feels deeply, he feels tenderly.’”

Visitors to Ireland’s main art gallery complained of nudity, too many religious paintings and “transgender tours”.

By tomorrow or Tuesday you’ll have had your fill of end of Six Nations reviews and teams of the tournament as people toss awards around like confetti at a wedding. But there’s no debate about what the word of Ireland’s Championship was. Intent.

For the more than 4,000 Irish ­teachers living and working in the United Arab Emirates, the past fortnight has been an anxious time.

There is one physical thing that ties the vast space of the US together. Sometimes it comes in the form of blinking red and green neon lights. Other times it comes in the form of plastic digits that are replaced by tired men on high ladders. Sometimes, in rural areas, it is scrawled in chalk on rickety sandwich boards.

As the man with the deaf dog says ‘it can be hard to call it’. That has been the case in the majority of this year’s Six Nations but when Ireland play Scotland we now expect Ireland to win.

When Martin O’Neill walked into the Celtic dressing room last October and shook Johnny Kenny’s hand, the Irish striker knew something his new boss didn’t. They had met before.

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Sheep farmers in the Knockmealdown Mountains in Waterford say they are being forced off the land, due to plans by the owners of historical Lismore Castle to increase the rent they pay by 900pc.

France have won the Six Nations championship after England’s astonishing 48-46 win over England in Paris tonight.

Typical Mayo. They finally have a scoring superstar and he emigrates. After electrifying the game as a 16 and 17-year-old, when it was announced Kobe McDonald was going at the end of this season, the Mayo people’s disappointment was like the time the Templenoe parish priest told his flock that Pat Spillane’s first baby was a girl.

The Taoiseach has strongly indicated that the Government will bring forward supports to help with the cost of living as he warned of the “second round inflationary impacts” as a result of the war in Iran.

The Taoiseach has ruled out delaying hikes to carbon taxes to help households with the soaring cost of energy as a result of the war in Iran.

Ireland’s Oscar nominees and film industry heavyweights from both sides of the Atlantic continued California celebrations on Friday of the island’s global film success with a brunch reception at a swanky West Hollywood restaurant organised by the LA Consulate and Screen Ireland.

In the end we came up just short, but if there has been a more engrossing or more entertaining Five/Six Nations than what we have been privileged to witness over the last six weeks, then I sure can’t recall it.

Los Angeles was sweltering through an unreasonable heat wave on Sunday as Irish Oscar nominees and their loved ones readied for the evening’s glitzy 98th Academy Awards – with all eyes on Jessie Buckley, whose Best Actress nomination could make her the first Irish woman to take home the prize.

There’s action from all four divisions of the football league plus the rearranged hurling fixture between Waterford and All-Ireland champions Tipperary up for decision today.

Micheál Martin is “looking forward” to playing a prominent role in Philadelphia’s St Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday.

St Patrick's Day is set to see a mix of patchy rain and bright spells with mild temperatures, wettest in the east and west.

Dancing With The Stars contestant Katelyn Cummins says she has only one regret about being in tonight’s grand final – taking the spotlight off her mum Siobhan on Mother’s Day.

It’s Wednesday morning and I’m halfway along the walk to my daughter’s creche when the first video lands in the WhatsApp group. At lunchtime, another couple appear. Before I leave the office at 5pm, I find a quiet spot to record and send my own. I’ll watch all of the videos later on when the final member of the group – the one with the oldest kids and therefore latest bedtime to shepherd – sends hers.

Question: I am wracked with guilt after developing feelings for my fiancée’s sister. She returned from Australia last year, when I met her for the first time, and at first I fought a physical attraction to her, and now I have gone on to develop feelings for her.

It is nearly 30 years since Michael Lowry resigned in disgrace from John Bruton’s cabinet. He has spent three decades struggling with the courts, tribunals, the gardaí, the ­Revenue Commissioners and political opponents. Last week, he emerged stronger than ever: he had finally got the Director of ­Public Prosecutions off his back.

Liz Nugent greets me in fluffy slippers and a newsreader’s top half – camera-ready above the desk, cosy below it.

Just to remind her fellow Americans that they were not the only ones feeling the pain of price hikes from her grandfather’s tariffs, last week 18-year-old Kai Trump posted a YouTube video ­titled: “I tried the world’s most expensive ­grocery store.”

The arrival of St Patrick’s weekend and the prospect of a two-week Easter break from school holidays at the end of March have put many of us into holiday mode.

Dormer extensions, Velux windows, bike storage in front gardens and external wall insulation are among a raft of home improvements that should be exempted from planning laws, according to a sweeping review of the planning system to be published in the coming weeks.

It’s Thursday morning in the Westbury Hotel, and Pat Kenny is in a subdued mood. He has just returned from a week in Portugal and we’re talking about the launch of his new weekend radio show on Newstalk.

Question: I am wracked with guilt after developing feelings for my fiancée’s sister. She returned from Australia last year, when I met her for the first time, and at first I fought a physical attraction to her, and now I have gone on to develop feelings for her.

This was a better performance than the one Ireland produced for their record win at Twickenham and that is saying something.

Against the intermittent thump of distant Israeli airstrikes, the elderly couple sit on the floor of a brightly coloured classroom, sobbing.

Here’s how Ireland rated in their Six Nations win over Scotland.

A young mother-of-one found in her Cork home died from accidental injuries consistent with a severe fall.

Andy Farrell’s Ireland face a must-win clash against Scotland in their pursuit of the Six Nations title. The match kicks off at 2.10pm at the Aviva Stadium. We’ll also bring you updates from the other games, with France v England at 8.10pm set to decide the championship.

Galway manager Pádraic Joyce says Division 1 survival will be on the line for both themselves and Dublin when they clash next Sunday in Pearse Stadium in Salthill.

Waterford are back down to the Allianz Division 1B of the hurling league after a four-point defeat in Azzuri Walsh Park.

There’s action from all four divisions of the football league plus the rearranged hurling fixture between Waterford and All-Ireland champions Tipperary up for decision today.

A man (20s) has died after a single vehicle road crash in Co.Westmeath in the early hours of this morning.

Iran said the US used "ports, docks and hideouts" in the UAE to launch strikes on Kharg Island, home to the main terminal handling Iran's oil exports.

The Taoiseach has strongly hinted that cuts to excise duty on fuel are being considered to help households with the soaring cost of energy as a result of the war in Iran.

Irish businesses are already being stung by disrupted trade routes and higher costs as shipping lines divert vessels away from the Gulf, forcing exporters to rethink how they reach global markets.

LinkedIn is refusing to run Irish language adverts, even during Seachtain na Gaeilge, saying the platform does not support the language.

Five years after facing an existential crisis due to the bar-closing Covid pandemic, Noel McDermott has more pleasant problems to worry about this St Patrick’s Day.

Modern masculinity is back in the spotlight, thanks to a new Louis Theroux documentary now streaming on Netflix.

The Taoiseach has declined to say whether he will meet in Washington with a woman who claims she was abused by Jeffrey Epstein.

The Taoiseach has strongly hinted that cuts to excise duty on fuel are being considered to help households with the soaring cost of energy as a result of the war in Iran.

Cork City Council is powerless to do anything about the proliferation of vape shops on city centre streets, a planning official told councillors this week amid concerns that the gaudy shopfronts are damaging the appearance of Cork’s historic main thoroughfare.

Jennifer Wrynne was 10 weeks postpartum from the birth of her fourth child when she found a lump in her breast. It was the day after Amelia-Rose’s christening in June 2025, and the new mum was in the shower, preparing for a trip to the hospital later that day for her baby’s two-month injections. “I wasn’t particularly looking, it was just rubbing the shower gel on my breast and I could feel it. But because I was so early postpartum, I didn’t in any way get alarmed.”

Glasses clinked on the yachts bobbing on the marina and the sun came out through occasional rain. The actor Steve Coogan was about the only obvious celebrity.

This was a better performance than the one Ireland produced for their record win at Twickenham and that is saying something.

The Taoiseach has strongly indicated that the Government will bring forward supports to help with the cost of living as he warned of the “second round inflationary impacts” as a result of the war in Iran.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Ireland are Triple Crown winners for the 15th time thanks to a 12th consecutive win over Scotland, whose long search for success in Dublin will stretch into its 18th year before they get another chance to end their dismal record.

The weight loss jabs Ozempic, Mounjaro and Weg­ovy — a type of medicine containing semaglutide — are increasingly being seen as a medical wonder of the age.

Andy Farrell’s Ireland have beaten Scotland 43-21 to win the Triple Crown as their pursuit of the Six Nations title goes on.