Blushing bride: Singer Sinead O'Connor is celebrating her 45th birthday with a fourth marriage.

Susan Buckland delights in floating down an Irish canal in a home away from home.

A chance stop by a museum on the Dingle Peninsula leads Greg Dixon to visit a remote scrap of history at the edge of the Atlantic.

What goes into the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup? More than you'd think. Rebecca Kammgoes behind the scenes with some of the busy key players charged with bringing it all together

Whether you like oysters or not, the annual Oyster Festival is a great time to visit the city of Galway on the west coast of Ireland.

Balancing tax and spending is not a task we can afford to cede to appointed experts...

I find myself in the strange position, at the moment, of feeling vaguely homesick for a place that isn't really my home.

We need to hear what really matters from the Prime Minister.