An Bord Pleanála (ABP) has refused permission for twice as many wind farms as it has approved so far this year, in a complete reversal of fortunes for the sector ..read more

Former US president Donald Trump touted his close relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu when he hosted the Israeli prime minister yesterday and accused US vice-president Kamala Harris of making “disrespectful” comments about the Gaza war ..read more

Some random perspectives, in this momentous week, from people who have either played alongside Pádraic Joyce and Kieran McGeeney or soldiered for them ..read more

Ireland’s oldest man will be cheering for his native Galway in tomorrow’s All-Ireland football final after a full weekend of family celebrations for his 108th birthday ..read more

Back in the heyday of package holidays, holiday reps were the kings and queens of travel. Pretty much every travel agency had their trusty reps on the ground, flitting between hotels with clipboards, organising busloads of travellers and making sure everything ran like clockwork. It was also one of the most coveted summer jobs — hanging out in the sun for months, having the craic with guests and living a party lifestyle while earning money. But now, as an increasing number of people plan their own trips independently, it seems like fewer agencies are hiring reps to work on location, instead re ..read more

Six-year-old Keely O’Grady was sitting in the living room of her grandparents’ home, quietly doing her homework ..read more

A former Fine Gael politician and businessman says he fears being murdered by a gang linked to the late gangster Cyril ‘Dublin Jimmy’ McGuinness after pleading guilty to money laundering ..read more

Detectives are this weekend ­trying to piece together a bizarre sequence of events surrounding an incident in which a car was blocked by another vehicle and a shotgun was fired into it ..read more

Rapist predator Raymond Shorten has shaken the notion of a “safe” way home. When he was jailed this week for 17 years for two separate attacks on young women that he had picked up in his Dublin taxi, Shorten’s appalling crimes made a lie of the trust that we put in taxis ..read more

Until two weekends ago, I hadn’t heard the name JD Vance in years. Suddenly, he was being mentioned as a possible candidate for the Republican vice-presidential nomination, and in what felt like a heartbeat he was on stage in Milwaukee, thousands of people wearing squares of paper stuck to the side of their heads were cheering, and balloons were falling from the ceiling. Yet another in the rapidly expanding category of “sentences that would have made no sense a month ago ..read more