Today, inspirational teenager Dónal Walsh will be buried. This is an essay he wrote about how he dealt with his two crushing cancer diagnoses

A Fine Gael TD has revealed that pro-life activists have threatened to slit her throat and burn down her house.

It's a story familiar to GAA people all over the country. A stormy annual general meeting, members walking out, transfer applications handed in afterwards.

The latest addition to our stellar team of rugby writers reflects on the ups and downs of a magnificent playing career — and reveals the reasons why he's chosen to move to Paris to kick-start his coaching career.

More than 300,000 people have left Ireland in the past four years. Tempting as it is, Ruairí McKiernan is prepared to stay to help make the country a better place

Kerry teenager Donal Walsh has passed away after losing his battle with cancer.

DÓNAL Walsh will be buried today having fought two battles in his short life — one with cancer and one with our health service.

IF THERE'S a season for dieting then it has to be summer.

Cork 5-14 Tipperary 0-24 The Cork senior hurlers bagged five goals on the way to a five-point win over Tipperary in a challenge match at Cloughduv last night.

Gardaí in Wexford have appealed to the public to help trace a missing teenager this evening.

Founded four decades ago, its annual turnover is now €2bn.

The Irish Bank Officials Association has welcomed news that extra time has been given to the special liquidators of IBRC to sell its multi-billion euro loan book.

Bill Gates is once again the world's richest person.

Hardly a week goes by without a minister or backbencher reminding us, usually in stern tones, that "we are borrowing €1bn a month to pay for (insert public sector worker group eg nurses') salaries".

"Traditional capitalist models" were not working and an alternative is needed, members of the UK's Co-operative Group were told today at its AGM.

The valuation and sale of IBRC loans has been pushed out by six months to November and December of this year.

Ireland needs a task force to deal with immediate impacts of the fodder crisis and to develop a credible plan for future years, says Fianna Fáil's Michael Moynihan.

Irish companies participating in this week's Enterprise Ireland trade mission to the Czech Republic and Poland, have secured new contracts with a potential value of €17m.

EMC has urged colleges to create more 'Big Data' programmes as experts predict millions of new jobs in analytics over the coming years.

The Association of Farm Contractors in Ireland (FCI) hopes to move a step closer to stamping out tax-evading operators when it meets with the Revenue Commissioners shortly.

A 10% tax on fizzy drinks, sweets, biscuits, crisps, and chocolate is to be recommended to the health minister as a way of tackling the country's soaring obesity problem.

A 24-hour prayer vigil for fine weather has been held on the Kerry-Cork border.

WHEN Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry first dreamed up the concept of a television show based in the unexplored universe of Outer Space in 1964, the world was a very different place.

Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured women dressed not just as sexy nuns and nurses, but also as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor that the former Italian premier has accused of persecuting him.

The valuation and sale of IBRC loans has been pushed out by six months to November and December of this year.

Founded four decades ago, its annual turnover is now €2bn.

Over the course of almost half a century, Liam Sammon has been in service to Galway football. Now he hopes a new generation can restore county pride.

Joe Schmidt's side won their third European trophy in successive years and gave Connacht reason to celebrate also as the Westerners gained entry to next season's Heineken Cup courtesy of their neighbours to the east.

YOUR wardrobe isn't the only thing that needs updating once the barometer starts to rise.

Did you cry with your buddy while watching Fergie say farewell at Old Trafford?