The Garda Water Unit is now helping in the search for missing Kildare man Trevor Deely.

A married City lawyer has been spared jail after being found guilty of pouring beer over a woman at a Christmas party, pulling up her skirt and repeatedly slapping her bottom.

The level of conversation between players after matches is minimal at the best of times and even less so in these December double dates, but a snippet of information picked up by Connacht after Sunday’s 32-17 loss to Wasps has been thrown about the changing room in the Sportsground quite a bit this week.

Big plans for your party hairdo but short on time? Lisa Haynes reveals how to transform your hair in minutes.

FOR most of us, Facebook is the place we go to see other people climb mountains and have children. 

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This season, fashion is about texture: mixing feathers, suede, leather, and the ubiquitous sequins. Paula Burns shows you how to master what can be a tricky look

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. As the Christmas party season kicks off, we showcase high-glam, all-glitter, 70s-inspired style from Opera Lane 

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The funeral of a Westmeath couple shot dead in last week’s Tunisian beach massacre took place today, single mothers have spoken of the hardship they will face over cuts to lone parent payments this week, Conor McGregor has called out Floyd Mayweather and 100 jobs have been announced for Dublin. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Touch base? Core competency? Scalable? Such financial jargon must be stopped before we all turn into rockstars, writes John Daly. The person who uses such terminology was likely putting on ‘Gangnam Style’ at the office Christmas party.

It’s Cork GOBA Christmas Party night at Curraheen Park and five finals feature on the 12-race programme.

Check out our spoiler-free guide to tonight's TV.

Google spent €300,000 on their office Christmas party in Dublin, it has been reported.

Take care at this year’s office Christmas party, as one in five of us has done something so embarrassing at the office Christmas party that we’ve had to vow never to do it again.

The misery of being forced to watch other clubs in the Champions League this season is driving Manchester United to ensure that is not their fate next year, defender Chris Smalling has admitted.

Nine out of ten Irish companies are planning to throw a Christmas party for their staff this year.

The festive season should be enjoyed, not survived. Let Rachel Marie Walsh take wardrobe and make-up worries off your mind with some fashion and beauty advice so you can sparkle in style

Now that I’m self-employed, I miss it: the work email that used to arrive like a cheery relief in the middle of more ominous subject lines. After “Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Issues” and before “Re: Re: Re: Who else knows?”, it popped in:“The Sports and Social Club Invites you to the ... CHRISTMAS PARTAE!“

Two serving gardaí have been remanded on continuing bail at Limerick District Court charged with assaulting two brothers on a street in Limerick last December.

Jurors in the trial of veteran DJ Dave Lee Travis have retired to consider their verdicts.

Michael Le Vell was reduced to tears by the welcome he received at the 'Coronation Street' Christmas party.

With an ever-lengthening list of scandals and a number of banks still reliant on the public purse, the 2013 Christmas party season for London’s financiers is about decency over debauchery.

You don’t have to invest bags of time or money to look a million dollars during party season.

Gangs of Eastern European shoplifters have been monitoring gardaí and private security personnel before launching raids at shops in Cork City when they know they are not around.

Do check out these hampers: Bandon-based Urru (www.urru.ie) and the magical Diva Boutique Bakery (www.divaboutiquebakery.com) has an online pop-up Christmas food shop;

The Michael Halford-trained Zarib emerged as the best prospect on show in Dundalk last night, the Declan McDonogh-ridden colt proving an emphatic winner of the Irish Stallion Farms Median Auction 2-Y-0 Maiden over a mile.

The then minister for justice Michael McDowell was a guest speaker at Thomas Byrne’s Christmas Party in the Four Seasons, the trial of the former solicitor has heard.

Golfer Rory McIlroy has claimed he paid over $6.8m (€5m) to his agent Horizon Sports Management Ltd based on unreasonable fee rates “many times greater” than is standard in the sports agency industry.

Golf star Rory McIlroy signed a contract with his sports management company on the day of the firm’s Christmas party, court papers claim.

The starting of races in Ireland, which has long been a bone of contention, reached farcical proportions for the opening Maiden Hurdle at Tramore yesterday.

The west Cork village of Ballydehob is in shock today after the discovery of the bodies of a man and his young daughter, who was to turn four in May, according to the Evening Echo in Cork.

He’s still only 36, but basketball’s Women’s Superleague coach of the year James Weldon has already been coaching for half his life. The trick? Continually pushing himself outside his comfort zone in the search for new methods and insights, even if that’s an obscure tournament in eastern Europe. The UL Huskies coach doesn’t do down time.

Munster head coach Rob Penney believes Saturday’s RaboDirect PRO12 showdown against Ulster will give his players an opportunity to measure themselves against the best in the league.

Rafael Benitez has told Frank Lampard it was up to him to prove Chelsea wrong over their decision not to offer him a new contract.

Newcastle have cancelled their Christmas party as they attempt to end a dreadful run of results.

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There has been a more than 20 percent increase in Chlamydia in Dublin according to new figures from the Well Woman Centre.

Almost half of people admit to getting up to mischief at their office Christmas party.

It’s week five of our six-week programme — Drop a Dress Size for Christmas.