The number of women having babies in their 40s has shot up over a decade, while the number of teenagers giving birth has halved.

No need to get in a sweat over the price of the Christmas dinner. You can feed five people a delicious three-course meal for just under €25. Cork chef Donal Hayes tells how.

The face of a shattered man put out of business by recent storms. Mike Foran, a potato and vegetable farmer whose business has been destroyed, is looking for an alternative livelihood, after being forced to close an enterprise developed over 15 years.

Old rivals Salsify and Tammys Hill will do battle again in the Albert Bartlett Hunters Chase at Down Royal on Thursday.

CROKE PARK has warned it will adopt a far stricter stance in relation to counties flouting the closed season collective training ban.