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The country may have to suffer the indignity, like Greece, of asking for a bailout to keep it afloat.

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen is battling for political survival.

Many years ago I was sitting with a friend at a pub in Ireland when an American tourist came in and began studying the menu. He approached the bar and asked the barmaid for "a quicky".

Irish author Cathy Kelly talks to Stephen Jewell about her new novel and the importance of multi-tasking.

Working NZ families pay 28 per cent of their net income on childcare, according to an OECD study. Dita De Boni examines the costs.

Irish republican dissident groups are targeting the British Conservative party conference.

The release of a man suspected of several abductions of young women in Ireland has caused a frenzy of fear among locals.

NZ is one of the best places to shuffle off the mortal coil, according to a new index.

Belfast is once again counting the cost - human, financial and social - of the familiar mid-July outbreak of disorder.

Herald sports writer Winston Aldworth lists the biggest 'fails' to emerge from South Africa 2010.

Now that the FIFA World Cup is in the knockout phase, Michael Brown reviews 'The Best Of' after the end of the tournament group phase.

Graham Henry's Project Carter involves coaxing more out of his team-mates. But Ireland have their own blueprint to counter the brilliant five-eighth.