Five southern koalas travel from wildlife park in Adelaide to English safari park

Harris’s hawks are flown to keep birds from carrying food packaging outside of grounds

Customers pledge acts of kindness at Swords pop-up in return for complimentary food

Several swimmers in the west have received hospital treatment for Lion’s mane stings

The man was watching his favourite show on his mobile phone while travelling on teh M6

Light stretching, window seats and bringing your own food make for a better experience

Strategically laid ‘rumble strips’ sing out regional anthem if hit at correct 60km/h speed

Crooked carrots, anyone? Beer from stale bread and soap from orange peel sell fast in Netherlands

One Connemara publican says: ‘This change alone is not going to save the rural pub’

Conviction causes public debate in Belgium

Battery-powered LED beam due to replace three diesel generators

Cargill takes minority stake in Dublin-based machine vision company focused on agtech

Coffee owners countersued and said Grumpy Cat had not held up deal to promote ‘Grumppucinos’

Prankster fools ratings site with fake web page, fake food and fake reviews

Woman ‘blew her top’ on Qatar Airways flight after unlocking phone with sleeping husband’s thumb

Gifs are gifts that keep giving. Here we chart their rise and rise in this their 30th year

‘Multi-millionaire’ acquitted of harassing neighbours over bird ‘crowing all day’

Top 15 jokes voted the funniest at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017

In 1904 a ‘tramp’ named Thomas Coyne learned Mary Carrol was ill and insisted he could cure her

20-year-old from Dublin seated Taoiseach at ‘tiny table’

The man was taken to Tallaght Garda station

‘Fatherland first’ Facebook posts call empty Oslo bus seats ‘terrifying’

Several people who got note for help thought they were being pranked and ignored plea

David Slater has been fighting for years over who has the copyright to photos taken by monkeys using his camera – and says he’s broke as a result

Winning author and publisher of Diagram prize have nothing to gain except the adulation of millions

Over 30 pupils protest after Exeter school insists they wear trousers despite heatwave

Former artillery officer beat 49 candidates to position at 350-year-old hermitage

Remarkable ship stopped on the Liffey months after a police ploy to catch a notorious serial killer

16-year-old’s tweet is closing in on Ellen Degeneres’s Oscars selfie – but still well short of the 18m retweets needed for free food

Investigation under way after people discover animal after eating some of product

Small robot submarine named after competition for new polar research ship backfired

A less-than-convincing Gosling ‘lookalike’ accepted an award for La La Land. Germany was not amused

Patrick Freyne’s alternative reading of Mark Zuckerberg’s 5,700-word Facebook post – aka his Marknifesto

Almost 80 puppies will square up against each other as the Ruffs take on the Fluffs – and Kitty Gaga will perform at halftime

Gifts for Prince Charles included fishing flies and toiletries on a visit to Donegal last May

Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer from Trump’s inner circle are full of “alternative facts”. Patrick Freyne lists a few more

Broadside: We need to weed out any Celtic corruption in our bloodline