A COUNCIL in Ireland has rolled out a scheme placing vitamin L light boxes in libraries to help the public overcome the winter blues. Dublin City Council confirmed this week that the initiative would ...

SAXOPHONE player and singer Paddy Cole has died at the age of 85. A familiar face from Ireland’s showband scene, the popular jazz artist hailed from Castleblayney in Monaghan. His death comes after he ...

A PAIR of pint experts will take to the stage in London next month to shatter the stereotypes that exist around women and beer. Irish writer Ali Dunworth and British beer expert Melissa Cole will ...

IRELAND will effectively go into lockdown overnight as it braces for the impact of what is being forecast as the “worst storm it has ever seen”. Storm Éowyn is set make landfall in the early hours of ...

AN investigation is underway after a local jewellers was targeted in an overnight burglary. Police officers were called to reports of a burglary at a jewellery story in the Urbal Road area of Coagh in ...

TWO Irish entrepreneurs are in the running to be Lord Alan Sugar’s next business partner in the latest series of The Apprentice Series 19 of the popular television competition will air this month, ...

CRIMINALLY gained cash seized by the PSNI has been awarded to the police force. At a hearing at Belfast Magistrates’ Court today a total forfeiture of £13,960 was awarded in the police force’s favour.

AN INVESTIGATION is underway after two men were attacked in Belfast. Officers attended the scene of an altercation in the Templemore Avenue area of east Belfast at around 2.30am this morning. One man, ...

EVERY school in Northern Ireland will close tomorrow due to the expected arrival of Storm Éowyn. The Met Office has issued a red alert, which covers all of Northern Ireland, from 7am on Friday until ...

Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief. As we were going to press it was announced that our own Frank McCourt won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoir Angela’s Ashes. Over the years many Irish Americans have been ...

Seán MacBride’s career spans the history of independent Ireland. His father was executed by the British after the 1916 Rising, when Irish independence was first proclaimed. As a teenager, he fought in ...