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A bride got her wedding party of to a flier with an incredible Irish dance performance with her friends and family. It so happens that Yvonne McNelis is a former Riverdance star, and spent several years touring the world with the famous Irish dance act.

An Irish pub owner has created a comical video in response to a negative review his business got in a newspaper. The video sees Gerald Hough, manager of JJ Hough’s singing pub reading the bad review of his establishment in the Pub Spy segment of the Sunday World.

A Californian man found his calling in life when he stood in front of a field of cows and serenaded them with the classic Irish song Fields of Athenry. In a bizarre but charming video, Adam Gossett stands at the gate of a field of cattle in Co Cork and …

A quick-thinking Irishman was reunited with his bike after it was stolen from work by a thief who later tried to sell it on the internet. Kevin O’Brien, from Cork, spotted his bike on a buy and sell site and set up a sting operation with help from his wife …

A priest has stunned his parishioners with a bizarre homily that compared homosexuals to zombies. Brother Tom Forde also suggested those who believe in contraception and abortion are “morally rotten” and the “living dead”.

Irish director Jim Sheridan has put his €3.5m Dublin mansion up for sale as he is looking to downsize now his children have flown the nest. The My Left Foot filmmaker and his wife Fran have lived in the magnificent Victorian home for 27 years.

Irish scientists believe they have discovered a potential way to warn epilepsy sufferers of oncoming seizures. There are about 40,000 people in Ireland who suffer with epilepsy, and the current treatments are ineffective for around a third of these.