The LE Aoife towed the stricken Alice II to  Castletownbere in a journey that took two days. Photograph: Archive/The Irish Times

A Norwegian couple are today recovering in West Cork after they were saved from a damaged yacht foundering off the Irish coast. Erik (62)(...)

The Dáil chamber. “A reformed Dáil both can and should perform all of the roles of the Seanad more effectively and more cheaply.” Photograph: Alan Betson

If the collapse of the Celtic Tiger has proved one thing, it is that modern Ireland cannot be governed effectively by a political system design(...)

Former British chancellor of the exchequer Nigel Lawson: argues that Britain should quit the single market altogether. Photograph: PA

Twenty years ago, I was an anti-European. Today, I am a pro-European. The strange thing is that my views have not changed. I have always though(...)

Ryan Dolan visiting Bladins International School of Malmö

Ireland will be the 26th and final country to perform tonight in the Eurovision Song Contest final. For the first time this year, the run(...)

Irish Agriculture Marine and Food Minister Simon Coveney Photograph:  GEORGES GOBET/AFP/Getty Images)

PROFESSOR Mark Costello, chair of World Register of Marine Species and president of the International Association of Biological Oceanography ha(...)

Concerns over the European Commission’s “smart border package” will be a key topic at today’s European Security Trends and Threats in Society ((...)

Minister for Energy Pat Rabbitte is initiating a formal review of the fiscal terms for oil and gas exploration but he has rejected demands from an Oireachtas committee for a Norwegian-style regime with very heavy taxation.

Minister for Energy Pat Rabbitte is initiating a formal review of the fiscal terms for oi(...)

A terraced house in Dublin’s upmarket Ranelagh has em erged as the centre of a complex global corporate structure run by four of the wor ld’s mo(...)

UN climate chief Christiana Figueres: “Little time remains to take concerted action in order to prevent global average temperatures rising over 2 degrees Celsius.” Photograph: Reuters/Mike Hutchings

The global agreement to combat climate change due to be concluded in 2015 is now likely to include a “dynamic” element that would allow new sci(...)

Praveen and Savita Halappanavar

“It’s not the role of the State to pass judgment on who a person falls in love with, or who they they want to spend their life with.” Tanaiste (...)

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