Q With recent news about US tariffs and wider economic concerns, I’m worried about the potential impact on my pension. Should I be doing anything right now?

As a title, ‘The Oldest Busker on Grafton Street’ might not chime with a lot of musicians. It’s just a street in Dublin after all. A street, with a doorway, in the wind and the rain for a balladeer to ...

We’re a decade on from our historic referendum on marriage equality and the groundbreaking Gender Recognition Act that followed shortly afterwards (and which tends to be overshadowed by the former).

It was a tough week for Ursula von der Leyen. Sadly, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban – who was never, ever, going to do her a favour – touched a nerve when he dubbed the EU Commission ...

There’s something about being just inches away from an 18-foot giraffe that’s truly arresting. Everyone knows giraffes are extremely tall, of course, but it’s a different thing entirely to stand next ...

The introduction of the 15pc tariff rate for most EU exports to the US has been delayed for a week, after president Donald Trump extended his self-imposed deadline to August 7.

West Galway, Dublin city and Co Carlow were the most expensive areas to rent a property for the August bank holiday weekend, an Irish Independent survey of short-term lets has found.

We’ve only half the job done’ – Athlone’s Shauna Brennan targets Champions League progression with tough four-day turnaround ...

I think it will be a clash between the political will and the administrative won’t.” Thus, the writers of the scalpel-sharp British television comedy series Yes Minister and its successor Yes, Prime ...

After a glamorous Ladies’ Day yesterday, fashion was still firmly on the agenda at the Galway Races today for the most stylish competition.

Irish consumers are increasingly buying ready-made meals that can range from premium produce to high-fat, high-sugar, nutritionally poor offerings.

Hyde Park, Dundalk at the time, “used his vehicle as a weapon” to strike another motorist as he fled the scene of an accident he caused in North Louth more ...