A cow named 'Ghost' narrowly avoided becoming a sea phantom thanks to the prompt response of a courageous RNLI crew.
The toxic relationship between farmers and the meat industry must come to an end, Agriculture Minister Michael Creed has warned.
Despite being caught up in a bitter dispute with processors over prices, hundreds of beef farmers from around the country were determined to keep the atmosphere of the Tullamore Show in Co Offaly alive.
Ghislaine Maxwell has routinely been lauded as one of the world's best-connected socialites.
The death toll from a powerful typhoon that hit south-eastern China rose to 33 as rescue workers used rubber dinghies to evacuate stranded people while swift currents swept by their homes.
Thousands of people who say they were molested as children in New York state are expected to go to court this week to sue their alleged abusers and the institutions they say failed them, including the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, public schools and hospitals.
When Frode Berg was a guard on the border near Kirkenes, Norway, in the 1990s, relations with Russia were so good that he would carry out joint patrols and go fishing with his counterparts from across the line.