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It's time announce the renowned judges on this year's IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Awards panel.

I hope you’ll agree that what follows is a striking selection of some of the year’s most arresting images taken by press photographers. Many were taken by our own team at Mediahuis Ireland, with accompanying words from staff photographers below. Others are from agency photographers. They all tell different stories from a year of news that was often tumultuous, both abroad and at home.

For four hours I’ve been sitting in a reception room upstairs at his Doonbeg golf resort, waiting for Donald Trump. And wondering if the 45th president of the United States is going to show up for our interview.

Love, romance, sex, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), picnics, tattoos, “party lesbianism”, binge drinking, sadism and masochism (S&M), the film industry, Ladies’ Day at the races: the number, and range, of topics covered by the Sunday Independent 03 Team back in 2003 was eclectic, to say the least.

Every April, autistic people and members of the autism community campaign to raise awareness, improve understanding and cultivate acceptance of autistic people in society. The initiative is known as Autism Acceptance Month and was founded by autistic disability rights activist Paula C Durbin-Westby in 2011. In honour of Autism Acceptance Month, here is a selection of ten engaging, insightful, and neuro-affirmative books about autism for young readers. Affirmative portrayals of autism in literatu...

Maria Oxley Boardman is already waiting at a table when I arrive at the hotel. We text, because at first we cannot find each other. “I’m going to stand up. I might be a bit hidden,” she messages. She stands, I see her waving, and wonder how I possibly missed her. It’s not just the tall, striking, model thing; Maria has been playing Dearbhla Dillon on Fair City for four years now. Even if you don’t watch the show, her face is likely to be vaguely familiar. She gets s...

With just two weeks left, we're excited to announce the renowned judges on this year's IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Awards panel.

Moving to Dublin towards the end of his teens, Jim Milligan discovered a deep connection with the Catholic faith. Raised under the Presbyterian banner on Scotland’s Ayrshire coast, he found lodgings run by a devout Catholic landlady, who introduced her new charge to the local Mass.

With just two weeks left, we're excited to announce the renowned judges on this year's IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Awards panel.

DRUID THEATRE Company will return to Coole Park this summer for a series of live outdoor performances of Chekhov’s The Seagull, directed by Garry Hynes.