George Bernard Shaw

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French actor, nicknamed Bébel, was one of country’s biggest stars in 1960s and 1970s

Taoiseach marks 75th anniversary of Naval Service in Cork flotilla

Martin and Coveney pay tribute to humanitarian and drug-smuggling interdiction missions

‘What’s the craic?’ is a new sentence I’ve acquired in Ireland. Also, ‘coola boola’

New to the Parish: Rujing Guo arrived in Ireland from Shenzhen in China in 2020

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Final sales of the season leave auction buyers spoiled for choice

Signed copies of Joyce’s Ulysses and Wilde’s Poems, and works by Paul Henry to feature

David McWilliams: Tax unused land and the housing market will be sorted

Landlords will bring idle land into use pronto if they face a big cost such as tax

Four fishermen rescued after trawler catches fire off Cork coast

Crew members forced to abandon vessel off Old Head of Kinsale in early hours of Friday

Memory Lane – Ray Burke on the audacious theft of Berthe Morisot’s Impressionist masterpiece and the Hugh Lane bequest

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Synge Street Victorian hits all the right notes for €1.15m

Fine period house on periphery of Portobello has sunny courtyard and off-street parking

Teresa Deevy and the secrets of the green suitcase

Best known for her productions at the Abbey, the Waterford playwright also wrote for radio, and there’s a mystery surrounding the origins of unpublished work under a pseudonym

Trawler at centre of major rescue operation sinks hours after crew winched to safety

All crew from Ellie Adhamh recovering after battling eight metre high swells off West Cork coast

Naval Service tows trawler stranded off Cork coast towards Bantry

Seven on board Ellie Adhamh spent night in seas off Bull Rock after losing power

Irish Olympians asking not what their country can do for them

Athletes keep their eye on the prize as they eschew the negativity that drags others down

Major rescue operation for stricken trawler set to resume at first light

Seven crew members remain on board the Ellie Adhamh in heavy seas off Cork coast

Turning an Old Leaf – Frank McNally on the revelations of second-hand books

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