Twenty years after Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s premature death, her style still inspires the world over. Rachel Marie Walsh reflects on the enduring appeal of an American princess.

Predictably, for the first Ironman triathlon to take place in Ireland, the main obstacle proved not to be the gruelling race itself but the weather conditions that greeted more than 2,600 athletes on Claycastle Beach yesterday morning.

Cork actress Fiona Shaw has won a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in BBC thriller Killing Eve.

“When he hit that hill, it was like he was doing what he was bred to do.”

The new chief executive of EasyJet will take a pay cut to match the salary of his predecessor, Carolyn McCall, said the airline, in a bid to battle against the gender pay gap.

The boss of easyJet will take a salary cut to demonstrate his "personal commitment" to equal pay.

Carolyn Moore has some sound advice for all you over-packers out there — she shares her secrets on how to nail a stylish yet simple holiday capsule wardrobe

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A homeless man, who shares a €1.5m trust fund with his sister, is to ask a judge to make him a part payment of €4,500 to “keep a roof over his head” pending a trial to determine his full entitlement.

BILLED as a book that’ll appeal to Mean Girls fans, I was expecting good things from Weightless. 

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NORTH POLE: Many of us cannot recall the last time we got a letter in the post, but Santa will this year receive a record 8m of them, the UPU has said.

The first woman bishop Ireland or the UK has been installed by the Anglican Church.

Esther McCarthy looks at a golden opportunity for winter style and designer Carolyn Donnelly explains why this limited collection is so special.

Bob Dylan is expected to snub his daughter's wedding, despite being invited to the nuptials.

The Church of Ireland has appointed its first ever female Bishop.

A priest has said Donegal needs no greater incentive to go on and win the All-Ireland than to honour tragic GAA fan Andrew Duffy.

Every family has its share of pain and triumph. And then there are the Kennedys.

Quixotic director Tim Burton sealed his creative marriage to Johnny Depp more 20 years ago with the brilliantly dark and twisted fairytale 'Edward Scissorhands'.

The number of people actually born on Co Clare soil swelled by one in the early hours of Friday morning when baby Éirinn Christina Robbins Logue was born on the side of the road in the small Burren village of Corofin.

A third-year west Cork student has been shortlisted for the major prizes in the much-coveted Doodle 4 Google competition.

A teacher's brain could spill out of her head if she laughs.

An American couple ripped out their car’s rear seats to ferry round their miniature horse.

TIPPERARY woman Anne McGrath was named the national Carer of the Year in a ceremony that blew away the gloom of recession, at least for a while.

A GIANT set of golden arches outside a McDonald’s in eastern Arizona toppled in high winds, crushing a couple’s Chevy Trailblazer as they sat inside and leaving them with multiple injuries.

A QUIET mobile home park nestled among towering evergreens reeled yesterday in the aftermath of an unthinkable crime: five children slain in their own home, apparently by their father, who subsequently committed suicide.

An elder of a polygamist sect and two other church members surrendered to Texas authorities to face charges over the marriage of underage girls to older men.

DR HILLERY was a private and even shy man despite the decades he spent in public life, mourners at his funeral mass heard.

Former President of Ireland, Dr Patrick Hillery, was today remembered as a humble and private man who achieved so much for his country.

Pat Eddery has given the new all-weather surface at Kempton Park the thumbs up after riding work on two unraced horses.

Pat Eddery has announced that he will join the growing band of ex-jockeys in the training ranks.

Former 11-times champion jockey Pat Eddery is to be awarded an honorary OBE in recognition of his “services to horse racing”.

More than 40 years after one of the most notorious crimes of the US civil rights era – the “Freedom Summer” killings of three young civil rights workers - a reputed Ku Klux Klansman was arrested on murder charges in the case.

Pat Eddery could become a surprise addition to the training ranks “in a year’s time”.

Pat Eddery brought down the curtain on his glittering career on a losing note at Doncaster today, but he still received the biggest cheer ever to greet a beaten odds-on chance.

JOHN F Kennedy Jr and his wife Carolyn were having marital problems and were living apart when they died in a plane crash in July 1999, a new book claims.

PAT EDDERY has abandoned the impossible chase to become the all-time winning-most jockey in British racing history by announcing that he will retire at the end of the season.

US congressman Gary Condit is emerging from a self-imposed media blackout following Chandra Levy’s disappearance, trying to revive his political career and clarify his relationship with the missing former Government intern.

A congressman who had an affair with missing intern Chandra Levy before she disappeared has been questioned by police for a fourth time, it emerged today.

The Kennedy family are reported to be paying more than £10m compensation for the deaths of two sisters in the crash of the light plane piloted by John F Kennedy Jr.

Bob the Builder has been accused of swearing on a children's video.