There has never been a spring planting season like this one. Rivers topped their banks. Levees were breached. Fields filled with water and mud. And it kept raining.
A Meath estate on 358ac of grass and tillage was withdrawn from auction during the week after being bid to €9.5m.
Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam has signalled that her government will go ahead with proposed amendments to its extradition laws after a massive protest against them.
Bethesda Softworks and id Software have been working on improvements in game software to improve video game streaming services.
The minister responsible for fisheries has said he will not ask Irish fishermen to leave waters around Rockall, despite a renewed threat of enforcement action by the Scottish authorities.
Police arrested about 500 people amid "unauthorised" protests in Kazakhstan about a presidential election that opponents claim was a fake exercise in democracy.
At least four people have died on the first day of a campaign of civil disobedience against military rule in Sudan, according to opposition medics.
