There have been no prosecutions for ticket touting since legislation banning the practice was introduced nearly five years ago.

Queston: I have three children and I absolutely love being around them and watching them grow and thrive. I took a step back in my career to spend more time with them and have never regretted it, not for one minute. They are great kids, there is no issue with them. And there isn’t really much of an issue with me either.

Financial planners work with wealthy people every day, but what money lands in their own bank accounts with each new pay cycle?

A Co Wexford nurse who received a parking fine while tending to a dying patient has had her appeal rejected by the county council. The nurse was in the space for 25 minutes having been urgently called to tend to the elderly patient who was in palliative care.

If you, like everyone else these days, have a daily protein goal, you’ll know that it’s sometimes tricky to hit the magic number, especially on busy days when you are on the move and having to rely on food you can carry with you.

For a woman who just turned 40, comedian Serena Terry has lived enough for several lifetimes. The death of her father and her best friend combined with an ADHD diagnosis, perimenopause, and all while trying to raise two children would be enough to stop anyone in their tracks. But she’s managed to turn the hardest tuff of her life in the last year into comedy gold.

No one has ever lost popularity by attacking the media, and Leo Cullen borrowed from the Donald Trump/Rassie Erasmus play-book on Saturday evening as he turned the tables on the assembled press post-match with something resembling Fr Ted’s ‘Golden Cleric’ speech.

“It’s a little bit different to your typical campervan,” says Movania Parkinson. “It feels a bit like a log cabin.”

For a woman who just turned 40, comedian Serena Terry has lived enough for several lifetimes. The death of her father and her best friend combined with an ADHD diagnosis, perimenopause, and all while trying to raise two children would be enough to stop anyone in their tracks. But she’s managed to turn the hardest tuff of her life in the last year into comedy gold.

A Kerry undertaker is taking the wishes of the deceased and their families to new heights with the launch of a drone service that can scatter ashes at sea, across open land, and over rugged mountain terrain.

Don’t be fooled. The fightback made the game dramatic and, for a period, distorted the narrative but banish the idea that Liverpool were unlucky.

Mark McHugh offered a stark choice to his Westmeath players before their Leinster semi-final against Kildare: Dublin or Leitrim in a fortnight, take your pick.

Shaun Murphy’s World Championship final against Wu Yize got off to a rowdy start with a protester ejected from the Crucible and referee Rob Spencer admonishing the audience for keeping their phones on during play.

Alex Ferguson has reportedly been taken to hospital after feeling unwell at Old Trafford ahead of Manchester United’s Premier League match with Liverpool.

Clare face Limerick in Munster hurling while Donegal’s conquerors Down take on Armagh in Ulster and Kildare face Westmeath in Leinster with the bigger ball.

Mixed weather is in store for the rest of Bank Holiday weekend, with a mix of rain and sunny spells, Met Éireann has said.

Finance Minister Simon Harris has just flagged that our pending summer of discontent may be quickly followed by a winter of something even worse. The Tánaiste was announcing details of the State’s new €500m fuel-crisis package, which follows the existing €250m package, when he warned that the worst effects of the crisis triggered in Iran may come in the winter.

The Government spent more than €70,000 on business class flights for Taoiseach Micheál Martin and an Irish delegation as part of the state visit to China earlier this year.

I arrived in Belfast alone, on a packed early morning train, because I wanted to do some “touristing” before a planned meet-up with a group of women from North and South.

A Wicklow man who threatened to kill his partner during a violent assault, forcing her to jump from an upstairs window and break her back, has been jailed for eight years.

Plug-in solar panels would bring cheap electricity to hundreds of thousands, yet the Government is dragging its feet on the initiative, according to the Green Party.

Demographics

Even signing a contract worth millions may not have been the highlight of Kobbie Mainoo’s week. The poster boy for the Michael Carrick revolution at Manchester United capped the transformation in both his fortunes and theirs with a goal whose significance was as much emotional as financial.

Convicted criminal Devon Hennessy has installed a bizarre security cage in his front garden to protect his car from arson and paint attacks from his rivals.

More than an hour after it had ended, the music was still booming out of the Limerick hurlers’ Ennis dressing room.

A failing in the legal system that is leading to a significant number of court-imposed penalty points going unrecorded is one step closer to being addressed.

A Co Wexford nurse who received a parking fine while tending to a dying patient has had her appeal rejected by the county council. The nurse was in the space for 25 minutes having been urgently called to tend to the elderly patient who was in palliative care.

By-elections are a strange beast and the fragmentation of the political system has created an even more novel event. It wasn’t always this way.

“It’s like coming out of war,” Mary* said about surviving 18 years of domestic violence.

Shaun Murphy’s World Championship final against Wu Yize got off to a rowdy start with a protester ejected from the Crucible and referee Rob Spencer admonishing the audience for keeping their phones on during play, but Wu overcame all the distractions to establish a three-frame lead over Shaun Murphy ahead of Monday’s concluding sessions.

Like many other people, as soon as the 1926 census was made available online on April 18, I eagerly dived in to look up both sides of my family.

Gerry Hutch is back in Dublin and his sights are set on a Dáil seat, whether its via this upcoming by-election, or the next general election.

A man arrested as part of an investigation into the fatal house fire in Co Offaly, in which a woman and child died, has been released without charge.

Clare proved no match for Limerick in the Munster Hurling Championship in Ennis. In football, Donegal’s conquerors Down take on Armagh in Ulster while Westmeath defeated Kildare in extra-time in Leinster.

Clare proved no match for Limerick in the Munster Hurling Championship in Ennis. In football, Donegal’s conquerors Down take on Armagh in Ulster while Kildare and Westmeath have gone to extra-time in Leinster.

The award-winning Irish actor Gary Lydon has died suddenly, at the age of 61. Lydon was best known in recent years for his role in The Banshees of Inisherin, where he starred alongside Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell.

Support for Jim O’Callaghan to succeed Micheál Martin as leader of Fianna Fáil has nosedived, but he is still well ahead as the front-runner, the latest Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks poll shows.

Government officials were told to stay silent about a charter deportation flight removing convicted criminals from Ireland in January until it had safely completed its journey.

Jim Glennon found out all of a sudden who his friends really were. The distancing from the former Fianna Fáil TD began immediately after he was forced to admit he was the politician who wrote a character reference for a sex offender. Loyalty is in short supply in the worlds of sport, business and politics.

To some, Dee Forbes is the villain — the wicked woman who is the cause of all RTÉ’s ills. To others, she is the leading scapegoat. The former director general’s silence since her humiliating resignation after the Tubridy scandal broke in June 2023 has infuriated the innocent and emboldened the guilty. No doubt many players on the RTÉ stage, fearful that the entire truth could emerge, are hoping the 57-year-old never forsakes her isolation to fill in the gaps.

In 2005, listeners of RTÉ Radio 1’s Marian Finucane Show voted Nano Nagle Ireland’s “greatest woman”.

Q I run a small retail business and set targets for my team in the past, but it didn’t work well and had a negative impact on morale and behaviour. Since then, I’ve moved away from setting clear targets, but I feel that’s not right either.

There were big smiling faces all round last week when one of Ireland’s oldest Big Top acts welcomed its latest circus baby.

It was the biggest rock music concert Ireland has ever seen. Forty years on this month, it’s still hard to fathom how Belfast-based promoter Jim Aiken was able to assemble such a glittering who’s who of Irish musical talent.

There have been no prosecutions for ticket touting since legislation banning the practice was introduced nearly five years ago.

A woman who was recovering in hospital following major surgery when a male patient entered her room after assaulting nursing staff has told of her terror over the incident.

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be invited to a week-long writers’ residency in a period house in the middle of rural Monaghan. The centre is well-known in Ireland’s creative community, and is designed for people to take time out of their daily routines and have enough space – both physical and psychological – to work on new projects.

A commemorative event will take place next month to mark 30 years since the death of Veronica Guerin, her family have announced.

When Lynn McDonald received a diagnosis of early-onset Parkinson’s disease, she was already a carer for her daughter, who died two weeks before her 11th birthday. The symptoms that were eventually diagnosed over a decade later as early-onset Parkinson’s disease (EOPD) began when the 45-year-old was just 32.

A man died in a single vehicle collision today involving a tractor in Carrickaboy, Co Cavan.

In the end, Leinster got there and, on balance, it was deserved. They were more than marginally the better of two hugely committed squads in a typically tense knockout semi-final.

Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is understood to be recovering after being taken to hospital before the match against Liverpool at Old Trafford.

Alex Ferguson has reportedly been taken to hospital after feeling unwell at Old Trafford ahead of Manchester United’s Premier League match with Liverpool.

Clare proved no match for Limerick in the Munster Hurling Championship in Ennis. In football, Donegal’s conquerors Down take on Armagh in Ulster while Kildare and Westmeath have gone to extra-time in Leinster.

The location of the €8.7 million jackpot win has been revealed by the National Lottery, as Ireland has welcomed its newest millionaire this Bank Holiday weekend.

The latest Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks poll was conducted on Friday, May 1. The sample size was 1,774 and the margin of error is +/-2.6pc. Changes indicated are since the April 2026 poll unless otherwise stated.

The latest Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks poll was conducted on Friday, May 1. The sample size was 1,774 and the margin of error is +/-2.6pc. Changes indicated are since the April 2026 poll unless otherwise stated.

Those who follow the constantly changing and evolving world of interiors will be familiar with recent innovations, including walk-in wardrobes, secret pantries, appliance garages and coffee stations, but we at irishindependent.ie have what we believe is a world first – the walk-through-the-hall wet room.

At 6pm one August evening almost three years ago, David Wall opened his front door on Cadogan Road in Fairview, Dublin, to find that squatters had moved in next door.

The subtitle of my new book on RTÉ is Saints, Scholars and Scandals. It could just as easily have been The Lady Vanishes, with apologies to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film.