Jose Mourinho of Real Madrid before the start of the Copa del Rey final against  Atletico  Madrid. Photograph:  Denis Doyle/Getty Images

Real Madrid and Jose Mourinho have agreed the Portuguese coach will leave the La Liga club at the end of the season, three years before the end(...)

Germany calling: Enda Kenny at a press conference in Berlin. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty

A senior Fine Gael figure smiles as he muses on Enda Kenny’s reluctance to fill the vacancy for junior agriculture minister, a post that has be(...)

Ronan O’Gara and Jonathan Sexton: set to meet up again at Racing Metro.

You couldn’t make this stuff up. Jonathan Sexton’s kicking coach at Racing Metro 92 next season will be Ronan O’Gara. O’Gara met Jacky (...)

Ronan O’Gara (left) and Jonny Sexton (right) are reported to be linking up together at Racing Metro 92 next season. Photograph: Lorraine O’Sullivan/Inpho

Ronan O’Gara’s foray into coaching could begin alongside Jonny Sexton in Paris with Racing Metro 92, if reports from France are to be believed(...)

We’re two days away from the Cannes Film Festival and actor Brady Corbet is bustling around his Parisian apartment and packing for the occasion(...)

The door display of LG’s smart refrigerator with Smart ThinQ technology is seen at the 2013 International CES at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 8th, 2013, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photograph: David Becker/Getty Images

France is preparing to tax smartphones, tablets and all other internet-linked devices to help fund the production of French art, films and musi(...)

Garret FitzGerald helped make Ireland a “psychological insider” within the European Union. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

Europe Day was marked yesterday with the inaugural Garret FitzGerald Memorial Lecture, when the former taoiseach was praised for making his gre(...)

‘All the time,” Edele Lynch says, rolling her eyes as she settles herself on the sofa with a cup of herbal tea. “It’s mostly ‘Oh-ohhhh!’, or ‘I(...)

Paris Plage, the artificial beach provided in central Paris in summertime. Photograph: Reuters/Philippe Wojazer

When a bank holiday falls on Tuesday or Thursday, French employees take the Monday or Friday off as well. The practice is known as a (...)

The Man in the Woman's Shoes

‘With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,” so wrote William Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice (...)

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