An Italian man charged with murdering his Irish landlord after an alleged row over a game of chess told police he had cut open his victim and tried to eat his heart.

An Irish man has been knifed to death in a frenzied attack over a late night chess game, detectives believe.

A violent Irishman will be escorted on a 14-hour deportation flight by the Queenstown police officer whose genitals he squeezed during a drunken confrontation.

Ireland as an opponent hold a special significance for Sam Cane.

A blonde-haired, blue-eyed seven-year-old girl has been put into care after being taken from a Roma family in Ireland.

Paul Rush finds more than one perfect pint on a self-guided literary tour of Dublin.

The melodic Irish brogue is the soundtrack to Geraldine O'Sullivan Beere's visit to Avoca County, Ireland.

An Irish property developer who was allegedly kidnapped for eight months has been released from police custody.

Questions have been raised about the circumstances of Irish tycoon Kevin McGeever's kidnapping.

Alec Baldwin and his 28-year-old yoga instructor wife Hilaria Thomas have confirmed they are expecting their first child together.

Food watchdogs in Britain have launched an urgent inquiry into beef produce after a number of products were found to contain horse meat.

The new season of Downton Abbey sees the Grantham sisters moving with the times.

Jill Worrall is schooled in the etiquette of Guinness drinking as she absorbs the unparallelled atmosphere of Ireland's pubs.

Dingle Peninsula, because of its isolation and less intensive forms of modern farming, has one of the richest concentrations of archaeological sites in Ireland.

This windswept peninsula on Ireland's west coast has one of the richest concentrations of archaeological sites in the country.

Jill Worrall takes in the dramatic scenery of Inishmore during a wild-weather cycling trip.

The largest of the Aran Islands, situated off the west coast of mainland County Galway, is home to one of the most spectacularly-situated and beautifully-preserved Stone Age forts in the world.

Jill Worrall heads across choppy waters to visit a former monastic site on a rocky Irish outcrop.

These two rocky outcrops off the coast of County Kerry support large gannet and puffin colonies. The larger of the two islands, Great Skellig, was also once home to a remote Christian monastery and is now a Unesco World Heritage Site.

Roje Adaimy visits a grand location that has played host to royalty and rock stars.