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’