New group promotes and takes bookings at independently-owned hotels around Ireland

Go home and rear your kids, some said. But Mary Fitzgerald, Tanya Airey, Zara Stassin and others did that and more, steering some of Ireland’s best-known holiday companies

Committee welcomes decision to leave €2.7m stipend system unchanged

Artist critical in resignation letter for not being able to put forward ‘minority’ views

Mary Fitzgerald died due to internal blood loss following a fall at her home, court told

ROSC events were extraordinarily ambitious but to reprise them would be a mistake

Senator says party never made a decision on water utility or charges while in power

‘Libya has not reached the point at which Northern Ireland’s peace process began to move to dialogue’

‘Actual power is in the hands of the militias’

Opinion: Inside Politics

There is debate about the number of middle classes there are on the continent but the reality is that the aspirational, smartphone generation has grown and it is here to stay

Editor Kevin O’Sullivan casts his eye back over the highlights of an eventful 12 months in his editorial review of 2013

The newspaper dominated in a number of categories including that of Columnist of the Year for which it received four of the six nominations.

UN report only a glimpse of the horror and brutality on the ground

Plea in open letter to ‘Lancet’ to allow full humanitarian access

The Irish-Egyptian Halawa siblings became increasingly politicised during a summer holiday in Egypt, and have now been detained by the regime they protested against. But friends say they are innocent victims of a political power struggle

Figure a ‘shameful milestone’, says UN

‘Our primary concern is their welfare,’ says Gilmore of four detained siblings

Diplomat meets four siblings at security forces headquarters in Tora district of Cairo

“There are those who cannot stomach Turkey becoming greater and stronger,” claims PM