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.

In the south of Ireland, Living’s restaurant reviewer Peter Calder finds fine food — and a decent cup of coffee at last.

Diana Plater's family has yet to find the answer to a family riddle: Who was their great, great, great grandmother? And why did they have a tradition of the name, Stuart, running through generations? She travels to Ireland to look for answers.

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.

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

While it may be true that the Irish like their Guinness, it's even truer they like their whiskey as well.

An Irish science adviser tells Chris Barton why research is still key to growth.

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.

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.

As Ireland prepare to face the All Blacks at Eden Park today, Dean Parker recalls how the New Zealand battle cry influenced one of their greatest writers