It is understood that several Ministers, including Minister for Transport and Sport Leo Varadkar, set out detailed arguments against the draft memorandum on banning alcohol companies’ sponsorship of sports events. Photograph: Alan Betson

A Department of Health proposal to ban alcohol companies’ sponsorship of sports events has been questioned by other departments in their formal respon(...)

There will be no public access to the the Irish Architectural Archive’s building on at Merrion Square in Dublin from July 2nd to September 2nd, the archive’s board said.  Photograph: Frank Miller

The Irish Architectural Archive in Dublin, which holds Ireland’s largest collection of building records, is being forced to close for July and August (...)

After 1911, the next census in Ireland was not until 1926. Those 15 years were the most tumultuous decade-and-a-half in Irish history – with upheavals(...)

Jeremy Irons in a scene from his film on waste, Trashed. Speaking at a screening of it  at the inaugural World Actors Forum in Dublin 
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today, Irons said the will to protest in society diminishes as “life gets easier”.

Actor Jeremy Irons has said “vast” amounts of people should take to the streets in defiance of plans to establish a waste incinerator at Ringsend, bel(...)

Seamus Heaney at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Photograph: Des Harris/The Picture Desk

Irish, Americans, British and French . . . some braved rain and a rail strike to queue outside the Irish College for up to two hours for Seamus Heaney(...)

Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Leo Varadkar is resisting moves to pinpoint a date by which drink firms should be banned from sponsoring big(...)

Mark Mahon: graphic novelist, film-maker and Corkman. Photograph: Aidan Crawley

Mark Mahon is explaining why he gave Morgan Freeman a thank you credit on his last film. “He’s the most amazing man I ever met in my life. If I ever f(...)

Before and after photograph of the stolen carved limestone window at Church Island, Lake Garadice, Co Leitrim. Photographs: Department of Heritage

The removal of a 15th century stone window from a protected Co Leitrim church is being investigated by gardaí.The carved stone window-frame was taken (...)

A young John Murphy now of Carrig On Bannow pictured meeting US President John F Kennedy in New Ross in June 1963. See next slide of John today. Photograph: National Library of Ireland

Wexford publican John Murphy (56) “couldn’t believe it” when he looked at his computer screen and saw his seven-year-old self peering up at US preside(...)

 Artist Neil Carroll and Ray McKenna, Managing Director, Towers Watson, Ireland pictured during the opening of the new Towers Watson offices at Trinity Point

Benefits consultants Towers Watson put on a bit of a show at their new green office overlooking Trinity College this week. The Dublin op(...)

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