A teenage girl who has been fighting cancer for 12 years has been the lucky beneficiary of a substantial donation from an English couple whose daughter has beaten the same disease

The celebration of the first same-sex marriage in the North might lull you into the false belief that we are now living in a fully tolerant society that allows people to be who they are, but change does not come fully formed.

A three year old boy from Mallow, Co Cork who drowned in Spain earlier this month will be laid to rest tomorrow following the "Mass of the Angels."

A pastor at a Baptist Church in Ballincollig, Co. Cork, has thanked the community for the massive outpouring of support received following the drowning of a five-year-old local girl whilst on a family holiday in Germany.

A GoFundMe page set up to pay for the medical costs and the transportation of the body of a three-year-old Irish boy who drowned in Spain has raised more than €7,000 in less than a day.

Mad Cool Festival returned to Madrid for its third instalment at the weekend. A stellar line-up featuring The Cure, The National and Robyn attracted over 180,000 fans to the Spanish capital.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology say the earthquake hit near the Banda Sea and said there is no tsunami threat to the country on the back of it.

Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for information in tracing the whereabouts of a 56-year-old in Dublin.

Glastonbury is back and there are a host of other overseas festivals offering impressive line-up, writes Ed Power.

Two men, one aged 52 and the second in his 40s, are still being questioned by police in the North after three teenagers died outside a St.Patrick's night disco in Co. Tyrone.

Battling cancer for 12 years, young Dublin girl Robyn Smyth faces a new fight against the disease as she flies out to the US today.

In the eight years since her last album, Swedish singer Robyn has come to stand for something bigger than herself.

Erin McGregor, sister of UFC king Conor, has started a floss dance challenge in a desperate bid to raise money to help save the life of a teenager she has been secretly helping.

Everybody knows that Christmas isn’t Christmas without an engagement or two.

They christened a bridge after Christy and bored a tunnel in the name of Jack, so surely it’s time to re-name the Inniscarra Dam in honour of the local legend, the most decorated player in GAA history?

“Last week I cried at ‘The Young Offenders’ movie... happy tears”

A friend of Good Samaritan biker, Aidan Lynam, broke down yesterday as he recalled the moment the acclaimed fundraiser met his death during a charity motorcycle event.

An injured American tourist, who broke her hip while attempting to drive a mobility scooter up the gangplank of a cruise ship in Cobh more than three weeks ago, has finally been airlifted home.

An elderly American tourist feels like she is “being held hostage” by the Irish healthcare system after sustaining a serious injury in Cobh more than three weeks ago, writes Kelly O'Brien in Cork's Evening Echo.

There’s a fear around homeschooling that the child will find it hard to fit in at third level. Not true, writes Georgina O’Halloran as she meets families whose children blossomed afterwards

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Whitney Houston was the victim of an extortion plot over an alleged lesbian affair, it has been claimed.

A motorcade featuring more than 200 motorcyclists escorted the hearse carrying Down Syndrome Ireland fundraiser and avid biker Aidan Lynam’s coffin back to Dublin last night.

A Dublin mother is facing a race against time to raise €300,000 in just four weeks to cover the costs of a groundbreaking vaccine trial in the US that she believes offers the best hope of saving her cancer-stricken daughter’s life.

US ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert said he was well as he recovered from a knife attack at an event in central Seoul.

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Last July a healthy baby girl, Faith, was born at 35 weeks’ gestation in Alaska.

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He’s leaving Today FM to return to Cork to RedFM — but DJ KC believes it’s the best decision he’s ever made. He tells Áilín Quinlan why family comes first.

A claim for damages over an injury caused to a toddler when her little finger got trapped in a hole in the metal lid of a restaurant’s sugar dispenser was described by a judge as “another case of compensation culture gone mad”.

A young Limerick mother and her family face Christmas praying for a miracle.

MOST Irish families will be sitting down to a feast of roast turkey this year, but many others are opting for an ‘alternative’ Christmas dinner.

Rihanna is being asked to tone down her image so she can be made into a cartoon character.

A rueful smile, but no regrets. A trial for an U14 Mayo academy team in Crossmolina. He wasn’t picked. Not even considered. Character maker, character shaper?

After University Anne Marie worked as a film and TV producer in London.

THERE are many unfortunate children who make headlines for all the wrong reasons, the best bits of childhood stolen through some tragic mishap at birth.

Lifting his eight-year-old daughter doesn’t knock a feather out of John Butler, but why would it when she weighs just two-and-a-half stone.

Mel Gibson was spotted tried to hit on three women in one night earlier this week.

As a mark of respect to an employee who was killed in a work accident, members of Cork County Council adjourned their meeting in County Hall yesterday after offering their sympathies to the deceased’s family.

Katy Perry has wished her "hoodrat" friend Rihanna a happy birthday.

Mel Gibson’s three-decade marriage has been deemed officially over after a judge finalised the actor-director’s divorce from his wife Robyn.