03/12/2010 ST. CHARLES COUNTY — Cottleville has really taken to the wearing of the green. Organizers of the city's second St. Patrick's Day event Saturday say they were caught off guard last...

New York, NY (Sports Network) - The third-seeded and seventh-ranked West Virginia Mountaineers duke it out with the seventh-seeded Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the semifinal round of the Big East...

Ireland have worked on their driving game, scrum and defence ahead of Saturday's RBS 6 Nations clash with Wales, but the key is seizing the important moments according to Gert Smal. The Irish...

It's a brave politician who traipses halfway round the world while her political opponents are calling for her head and her job could be up for grabs in an upcoming Cabinet reshuffle. But Irish...

Norman Surplus will fly his little yellow autogyro over deserts, mountains, oceans, and some of the most remote places on the globe. The total journey will be 27,000 miles, including 4,400 across...

by Brendan Cole This should be a tight game based on results over the last few years but with Wales shorn of a number of key players, Ireland could find themselves operating in a comfort zone of...

Wales boss Warren Gatland has dismissed Irish media criticism of him heading into Saturday's Six Nations clash at Croke Park. One newspaper columnist labelled the ex-Ireland coach "as rational as...

B lame it on Michael Flatley. For three years, the adult Irish step dance class at Mass Motion Dance in Allston has drawn students from India, Russia, Spain, Chile and other countries not usually...

The festive city of Galway on Ireland's west coast has just been catapulted to the summit of the sailing world with the announcement that it will host the finale of the Volvo Round the World Ocean...

US software and IT services company Sungard has bought Dublin-based data centre services firm Hosting 365. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Hosting 365 operates from two secure data centres...

Geordan Murphy believes Wales' swashbuckling style makes them capable of causing an upset at Croke Park on Saturday. Ireland resume their Six Nations campaign against a side that have become the...

Former Finance Minister Alan Dukes is to take over as the new chairman of nationalised Anglo-Irish Bank, it was confirmed today.Donal O’Connor, who steered the bank through the state takeover...

DELIA O'HARA Staff Reporter The South Side Irish Parade is gone and much lamented in some circles, but its spirit lingers on in a family-oriented festival to be held Saturday at the Beverly Arts...

The chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, Donal O'Connor, has formally announced he will retire from the position at the end of June. A statement from the bank said that former Fine Gael leader Alan Dukes...

Among the dreary grind that has all too often passed for this year's Six Nations there's been some real high points: most of them tinged with red. Wales have been this year's great entertainers,...

German stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse is to begin selling shares in publicly quoted Irish companies later this year.The move will further open up the European market for companies on the...

The Taoiseach begins his visit to the US today, which culminates in meeting President Barack Obama in the White House on St Patrick's Day. Mr Cowen's trip will have a strong economic dimension,...

Taoiseach Brian Cowen last night invited unions back to talks.However, low-key industrial action including work-to-rule phone bans and office closures by up to 300,000 public servants will...

Aer Lingus 's plan to lay off about 1,200 full and part-time cabin crew and rehire them on new contracts that will include reduced pay and more working hours has sparked a furious response from union...

New York, NY (Sports Network) - Tory Jackson and Luke Harangody each scored 12 points, and Harangody made a pair of clutch free throws with just under 16 seconds left, as Notre Dame improved its NCAA...

Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Irish Reels Film Festival and "The Best of British Noir" series begin in Seattle this week. Also screening: "Casablanca" and "The Quiet...

(FSY) came off the bench and hit three key free throws in the final two minutes, helping Notre Dame hold off No. 16 Pittsburgh 50-45 in the Big East tournament quarterfinals Thursday night for its...

(3/15/2009) The South Side Irish Parade not on the South Side? Not in Beverly and Morgan Park? All gone from Western Avenue? 103rd Street to 115th on Saturday, empty? Oh, my God, I can't...

Get your Irish eyes smiling in anticipation of St. Patrick's Day at the Day of Irish Dance. The Gaelic gaiety and Celtic camaraderie is sponsored by the Irish Music & Dance Association, and in...

 THE MINISTER for Health was among those who had failed in their duties in regard to what had happened at Tallaght hospital, a Government member said. Referring to the failure to review...

 MINISTER FOR Health Mary Harney celebrated her 57th birthday yesterday far from home but with the words of her Dáil colleagues echoing in the New Zealand air. The news that it was her...

MICHAEL O'REGANFINE GAEL TD Tom Sheahan criticised the delay in providing an operational programme for the fishing industry.“The provision of jobs in the industry around the coast is being...

MICHAEL O'REGANA HOMELESS Dublin teenager spent last Tuesday night in an internet cafe because the HSE had no suitable accommodation for him, Fine Gael spokesman on children Alan Shatter told the...

Labour leader Eamon Gilmore: he said the only thing missing from Minister for Health Mary Harney's trip to New Zealand was "a dinner hosted by Bilbo...

COLM KELPIECUSTOMS OFFICERS have difficulties cracking down on the number of cigarettes an individual can bring into the country for private use from other EU member states. If tobacco or alcohol...

 THE DEPARTMENT of Finance was accused yesterday of undermining viable hotels by giving out €329 million in tax breaks for new developments over a four-year period.Labour Party TD...

MARIE O'HALLORANTHERE WAS UPROAR in the Dáil and the House was suspended for a time amid repeated Opposition demands for a debate about reports of thousands of unopened referral letters from GPs...

More than 100 jobs saved in Donegal A statue of the Sacred Heart which the Health Service Executive (HSE) South said it was forced to remove from the entrance of the Killarney Community Hospital...

LORNA SIGGINSGalway City Council has agreed to develop a “working relationship” with a campaign to develop a light rail system in the city.The “Gluas” campaign says its...

Galway council supports light rail proposal After a bleak year on the jobs front in Donegal, there was good news yesterday with confirmation that more than 100 manufacturing jobs have been...

SEÁN MacCONNELLCereal farmers who lost money on their crops last year are reluctant to plant their spring crops despite the favourable weather of the past few weeks. The first of the annual...

BARRY ROCHEA MAN and a woman have been remanded in custody after they were charged with the murder of a man whose body was found in a field in Co Kerry over a year ago.John Walsh (44) and Gillian...

BARRY ROCHE, Southern CorrespondentTHE TOURISM group behind a new car ferry service linking Cork and Swansea have expressed confidence about the future of the service.The ship arrived in Cork on its...

AINE de PAORRESIDENTS OF a Limerick housing estate say they have been left without working toilets and showers since before Christmas.Much of the old lead piping in the estate, St Mary’s Park,...

MARESE McDONAGHA GARDA superintendent has described an arson attack on a shop selling so-called “legal highs” in Sligo as a “worrying development”.Two Sligo men were arrested...

Blood was 'oozing' from man at party A woman has been awarded €75,500 at the High Court after medical staff failed to remove swabs following a procedure at Waterford Regional Hospital.The case...

Blood was 'oozing' from man at party The jury in the trial of a Dublin man who is accused of murdering a man after pretending he had drugs for him, was last night sent home after failing to reach a...

Blood was 'oozing' from man at party A mother of three young children who took part in the robbery of a young woman student at a Luas stop has been given a four-year sentence by Judge Patrick...

Woman jailed over Luas robbery A man who died after he fell into a coma at a party where “cocaine was freely available” was found “gasping for air” with “blood oozing...

Woman jailed over Luas robbery A HIGH Court judge moved a sitting of his court to an outside car park yesterday afternoon after the plaintiff in a civil case had to leave the courtroom because he...

Woman jailed over Luas robbery RANK-AND-FILE gardaí should be exempt from the pension levy because their employment circumstances are different from most other public servants on several...

A woman in a burka with a Garda detective in a car outside the District Court in Waterford yesterday, where seven suspects had their detentions extended in a special sitting over an alleged plot to...

Woman jailed over Luas robbery A LEGAL row over an inquest jury’s verdict that a dead baby found in a Dún Laoghaire laneway in 1973 was the child of Cynthia Owen, who alleged the child was...