The US Congress passed spending legislation early on Saturday in a down-to-the wire burst of activity that will avert a ...

Retail analysts, Kantar, put the cost of Christmas dinner at €34.74, Conor Pope found the true figure far higher.

A driver rammed a car into a large crowd of revellers at a Christmas market in central Germany on Friday evening, killing at ...

Gisele Pelicot did not put herself through a ritual public skinning because she wanted to be some kind of icon. She did it to ...

All I Want for Christmas is You is the psychoacoustic equivalent of being strangled with tinsel. This superfan will never ...

I don’t believe in the idea of being on the right side of history. The histories of the future are none of our concern. Our ...

At the world’s aquariums, however, the tradition of sending divers dressed as Santa Claus into the tanks for a festive swim ...

If the 2024 election result marked stability, safety and conservatism, the biggest gig of the year underscored that same ...

Kantar’s figure of €34.74 seems at odds with Irish people’s tendency to eat and drink with the abandon of a Tudor king at ...

Fine Gael leader Simon Harris has conceded that he will likely not be Taoiseach when the next government is formed, ...

A political year of shocks and surprises somehow ended up as it began: with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in cahoots. The ...

Ireland heard plenty of ‘eco rhetoric’ in 2024 but there was a clear sense that political leaders have not grasped the ...