Vans can be customised inside to create a tiny home away from home for the holidays

EU’s Brexit negotiator grimaces through French display on Dublin visit to watch rugby

Santa will have to use the door because after the Tories relax the child labour laws the chimneys will be crammed with urchin chimneysweeps and little matchgirls

Was Jesus really born on Christmas Day? And who was Santa Claus?

Ireland faces a Christmas Tree shortage in seven years after the 2018 heatwave

Schmidt now set to prepare for defence of the Six Nations – then comes the hurdle of World Cup

Feared and adored, John Nicholson became a hero of the British Empire, and inspired a cult

Aristocrat alleges the French state tricked his family out of the line of succession

NUIG coxed four claim thrilling photo finish win on the River Thames

Monaco Grand Prix was exceptionally dull to partake in and to watch, say drivers

Royal expected to retrace footsteps of Queen Victoria in visiting Killarney

Simply being at the film festival constitutes a step up in the hierarchy

Petitions Committee said petition seeking its removal was inadmissible

Patrick Freyne: Every December the Eighth it happens - hordes of salivating red-faced rural types

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Huge entry for Cork Regatta while further World Cup glory beckons in Lucerne

Prime minister and leader of Labour Party lead tributes to Duke of Edinburgh

Health of rowing evident as young guns make their mark at Indoor Championships

In the the wake of their decision to leave the EU, the festive season may not be the same in the UK

How many of season’s traditions took root in dear old Deutschland? Yule be surprised!

Entrepreneur plans to produce 100,000 litres of Drumshanbo Gunpowder Gin in 2016

Will call for new thinking on global warming and decry selfishness of state-led policies

Partner flags French man’s performance as one worthy of ‘Europe’s next superstar’

Gerry Adams, Mary Robinson and Denis O’Brien will be at Clinton Global Initiative

Helene Pastor, friend of Monaco’s royal family, was visiting son in hospital when struck down

Family of the late Princess Grace have denounced the film

The former high king of Ireland is still a revered historical figure

Dr Michael Smurfit has written his autobiography, A Life Worth Living. The book tells how a man from modest beginnings left school at 15 and became an international business titan. The Smurfit story is more than just business, however. It is a story of politics, sport and above all family .

A nuanced view of William Dargan and his great legacy

British monarch’s reserve fund has fallen from £35 million in 2001 to £1 millon now

Fragment of royal portrait – slashed during rebels’ occupation of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – turns up for auction

Quadruple scull team recover to remain in the running for honours