Galway’s Frank Burke and Dublin’s John Horan thought to be leading contenders

Patrick Freyne looks at how US presidents have been sworn in across the centuries

Funeral told ‘stories mattered’ to the playwright, author and scriptwriter

The former understudy to Dublin’s Stephen Cluxton was an insatiable pills-and-thrills chaser

Ards Forest Park, Sheephaven Bay, Co Donegal

Three variations on a couple track roads not taken, lives unlived

Beekeeping, Belfast and Buddhism: books of lectures by Harry Clifton, Paula Meehan and Michael Longley cast the net wide

Higher level exam judged to be a good test of students’ abilities overall

Golf may have been his first love but, after a growing spurt, rugby is his sole attraction

The countdown is on to find Ireland’s favourite Irish poem, so we’ve asked a selection of writers and readers to tell us their favourite few lines of verse, and to nominate which poem they think is best from RTÉ’s A Poem for Ireland shortlist

Money is part of overall financial package of €6.25m in grants to counties

National Sports Campus Development Authority irked at judge’s comments as it failed to get security for costs in €10m action

After retirement, playing bad golf and volunteering an evening or two a week wouldn’t be enough. Reinvention as a practising barrister as well as those would be better

Francis Harvey: April 13th, 1925 - November 7th, 2014

Moving to the west of Ireland was meant to be a temporary stay for the writer, artist and cartographer. But, four decades later, he remains in Connemara, although his mind is setting sail for elsewhere

David Norris gives them chapter and verse over Wilde ways

It’s a PR budget from the Corner Boys - P is for Prudent and R is for Responsible

Analysis: For the first time since 2007 there has been no net cut in spending

‘The road we have travelled to get to this point has been very difficult and the Irish people have made major sacrifices’

Cork have an edge in three championship games played but Limerick have a winning momentum

Market values have turned summer into a platform for further consumption and turned all of us into a ‘resource to be used up’

Whether in a book or on ‘Mad Men’, ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘The Simpsons’, poems change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world

Opinion: President spoke at Amherst gathering to honour Frost 50 years ago today

His books sold and continue to sell in the tens of thousands, while hordes of ‘Heaneyboppers’ flocked to his readings

Series of unpredictable results disprove a number of former theories

As the latest comedy from the Wayans dynasty, A Haunted House, hits our screens, director Marlon Wayans tells Tara Brady the secret of their success and why audiences, but not critics, love them