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Leinster will be raging-hot favourites to complete a perfect season against Connacht in the Women's Interprovincial final at Energia Park this evening (KO 7.0, with admission free for a...

The State is owed more than 144.6m from the estates of deceased nursing home residents who used the Fair Deal scheme to finance their care, figures reveal....

So what about the gathering gloomfest sparked by those Dublin footballers doing down the best the Kerry guys could offer? A growing consensus would have us believe the sport is mired in...

A retired garda and his wife yesterday had 6.8m in debts written off when the High Court approved their Personal Insolvency Arrangements....

They say that to expect defeat is nine-tenths of the defeat itself, and if that's true then you just hope the Irish team has tuned out all the noise ahead of this World Cup....

World Cup fever has gripped the Japanese capital but come next month, the sporting vibe will have a rival - and that's fashion. Tokyo Fashion Week SS20 starts on October 1 so the street...

Don't you just love how sporting events like the Olympics and the Rugby World Cup turn us all into quasi armchair experts and we suddenly start spouting analysis studded with technical...

We're a busy household with three children aged between 10 and seven years old, two busy, untidy grown-ups and two dogs on a working organic farm and ecotourism destination....

After a statement of support for Kevin Lunney and his family had been read out, staff from Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) remained where they were standing, trauma and revulsion still...

Shelbourne Park will be at full capacity this evening for the final of the Boylesports Derby. After Our Surprise was withdrawn, only five will go to traps in the 140,000 contest and Le...

The football match was over, and we were loitering in the lobby of the hotel beside the stadium, waiting for a taxi to take us back to our lodgings....

From pancakes to noodles, Meera Sodha's exciting new book takes you on a culinary journey to the Far East...

Dark chocolate rice cakes, writes Katy McGuinness, are the thinking person's sophisticated afternoon snack. But are they all created equal or are some versions better than others?...

I was amused by and agree with David Ryan's assessment of the UK's sorry bunch of present political party leaders (Letters, Irish Independent, September 20). I also concur with him that...

In the long-awaited follow-up to her debut 'PS, I Love You', Cecelia Ahern returns as a more mature writer with a beautifully nuanced understanding of grief, writes Meadhbh McGrath....

A fiver for everyone when it comes to social welfare payment increases has been a simple but effective Budget wheeze that has greased the wheels of the Confidence and Supply deal betwee...

We've watched Planet Earth. We talk about climate change. We've bought Keep Cups and stopped using plastic straws. We have a tireless nine-year-old who keeps emerging from books and sch...

In the autumn of 1936, a few months after an abortive coup by army officers against the democratically elected republican government had ignited the Spanish Civil War, General Francisco...

Regarded by many critics as the most important living French writer and derided by others as little more than a Gallic literary troll, there's no doubt that Michel Houellebecq is the ba...

The kitchen bin is a good place to start. Peer inside to get a sense of the impact that our eating habits are having on the planet. Most homes have a recycling bin (even if we are not a...

Road safety may be under threat in a week as speed camera operators are set to strike for 24 hours....

I caught a dawn ferry across the Shannon travelling from Kerry to Clare yesterday morning. It was hard not to be struck by the beauty of the sunrise coming through the heavy fog hanging...

Oonagh Murphy was looking over the character listing before casting The Playboy of the Western World when she came across the disappearing girl. In JM Synge's original script of 1907, t...

There was shock in Meath last night when county board chairman Peter O'Halloran stepped down from his position with immediate effect after what he described as an...

The gang that abducted and tortured Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) executive Kevin Lunney threatened to kill five members of the management team, the Irish Independent can reveal....

For as long as Mark Ryan can remember, his son James has been a student of the game. Even when a rugby ball was not in his hands, he was sitting in front of the TV watching re-runs of S...

We can't say we weren't warned. Before I was beamed 30 floors up to my hotel room in Tokyo, I had already been advised not to make a fuss if I felt the building sway underneath me -...

In the borderlands of Cavan and Fermanagh, the legacy of Sen Quinn and his vast business empire dominate the landscape....

The clear message from government is it's time to think electric vehicle (EV) for you, your family and business....

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Walking through the Meadows, a beautiful park in the Old Town of Edinburgh, I noticed a sign on a school gate....

When Google boss Sundar Pichai suggested the tech giant may get involved in helping to ease Ireland's accommodation crisis, he would not have expected it to cause a headache for Housing...

The European Union insists a...

The ESB made an operating profit of 294m in the first six months of this year. The State energy company will pay a 38m dividend to taxpayers, taking the total paid to the Exchequer ov...

Let's call things by their true names. Kevin Lunney wasn't assaulted or given a punishment beating. He was tortured. Terrorised. Fingernails pulled out, leg broken with an iron bar, fac...

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Well, well, Mel... Ask for a means of revenge and you shall receive a flapping Sharon on a platter. All it took was one look between Sharon and Keanu for Mel to realise she had the Mitc...

What, no more war? As if. The Gears of War series has ditched its suffix for the fifth (er, sixth actually) helping of space marines shooting terrifying narky aliens. Don't be fooled, t...

Garda overtime spending has been halted from midnight last night - except for urgent operations....

ine Dempsey has organised demonstrations, negotiated with authorities and addressed her local council and yet she knows what it is like to be underestimated....

Neanderthals may have been killed off by simple ear infections, a study has suggested....

At first glance, restaurateur Ronan Ryan's decision to do a U-turn on a deal to surrender his family home to a vulture fund looked like an audacious move. Instead of handing over the ke...

Japan got the result they wanted, the supporters got what they came for and World Rugby went home happy....

Apple and Ireland's court-room clash with the European Commission finally lived up to its billing as the world's biggest tax case....

We're all set for a no-deal Brexit. We've the freezer full of Brennans bread....

Irish Nationwide never published its own credit-risk policy for...

The development of hundreds of new homes has been hit by delays as local authorities get tied up in red tape....

The longer I've campaigned for adequate action to contain climate change, the more clear it has become that it requires fundamental...

If you've ever tried sake, you probably had it in a Japanese restaurant or sushi bar, and chances are you drank it warm, poured from a ceramic flask called a tokkuri, into an ochoko, a...

The 2019 Rugby World Cup is up and running and, while they have to wait another 24 hours before they get in on the act, Joe Schmidt's Ireland are itching to kick off their campaign agai...