Alan Bourke (48) capped by Ireland junior soccer team in 1990s, had ‘great sporting life’

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Celebrations across country while about 400,000 attend in Dublin

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Festival a ‘great oppertunity to spread joy’ after two year hiatus

Brianna Parkins: Australia’s restrictions on arrivals caused me to miss my uncle’s funeral

Board behaved ’inexcusably’ by failing to issue authorisation for legal actions by five minors, court told

The director on his new historical fiction novel, Harvey Weinstein and ageism in film

An Irishman’s Diary

From Dublin's St Patrick’s Festival to Kilkenny Tradfest and a Co Wicklow slime lab

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‘A real Republic is a Republic of equality, of shared vulnerabilities and of collective capacities’

Irish hotel group plans to open a 120-bedroom, four-star hotel on Lord Edward Street

Diversion around south-quay closure at O’Connell Bridge. North-south traffic flowing

South quays will be closed to traffic for a week for road reconstruction

Order needed if profession’s reputation ‘to be trusted to ends of Earth’ to be upheld, court hears

This year’s judges had a tough job sifting through more than 30,000 entries. Readers were eager to show their appreciation for the independent shops making a difference up and down the country. Today we reveal the 10 winning shops