President Michael D Higgins has led a commemoration to mark the 103rd anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin.

Mary McCarthy, CEO of Anew family support services, has revealed that so far this year, 26 homeless women have been referred, but they can only accommodate four at a time.

Being bullied as a child has emerged as a significant factor in why people who subsequently become alcoholics or drug addicts took their first drink or drug, research has found.

A Swedish journalist has been shot to death while he was talking to a translator on a street in Kabul, the second killing in two months to strike foreigners in an affluent and well-guarded area of the Afghan capital.

The death toll has doubled to more than 5,000 in typhoon-ridden Philippines as families continue to flee the worst hit areas and loved ones are reunited.

WE’VE all heard the saying that opposites attract but, according to relationship experts, there are some fundamental topics which couples should agree on.

Affairs can lead to bitter fallout for all and regaining trust is not easy, writes Áilín Quinlan.

Chris O’Dowd’s tweet put his wife on the spot, writes Arlene Harris.

The king of Jordan is taking a personal interest in the case of three members of his country’s Paralympic team accused of sex offences during pre-Games training in Northern Ireland, a court heard yesterday.

AS many as 20 people a month are seeking to access a HSE-funded, self- harm intervention programme in Co Wexford.

IN his feature article (May 19), Elias Khoury perpetuates many falsehoods about the history of Israel which I would like to challenge.

YOUR editorial (‘Aggression will not end this insanity’, January 22) ignores the fundamental issues that led to the current situation in Gaza.

A lack of resources is hampering the battle to help drug-afflicted youths, writes Conor Kane.

The Cork Chamber of Commerce has launched an initiative to develop business links between Ireland and Hungary.

A team of 20 helicopters scoured rugged terrain near New Zealand’s west coast today for a missing helicopter piloted by a millionaire and carrying a Dutch beer company executive.

Michael Barrymore’s former drugs counsellor said today he had seen the entertainer swim in the pool in which party-goer Stuart Lubbock was found dead.

Loyalists attempted to murder a Catholic man in a hit-and-run incident in North Belfast, it was claimed today.