Operation Transformation dietitian Aoife Hearne believes women need to be realistic about their post-pregnancy bodies, writes Ciara McDonnell.

Getting familiar with the art scene and deciding who and what to buy can be challenging for a newcomer, but there’s plenty of information and hand-holding available, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

Hundreds of community and volunteer events and festivals could be under threat due to soaring insurance costs and regulatory issues.

Up to 200 of Ireland's upcoming festivals are at risk due to an insurance-related issue.

Your Christmas must-haves start here with some colourful home and utility artistic advice from Esther N McCarthy.

Older farmers need a national voluntary organisation that specifically represents the senior generation of the farming community, according to researchers at NUI Galway.

Children are being let down by public bodies such as the HSE and Tusla who fail to keep their best interests at heart and by a mental health service where psychiatrists are not routinely available to suicidal young people.

The family of a Mayo man, who died when swimming in the Canadian Rockies, is preparing to bring his remains home.

When I first moved to Dublin in the late 1980s there was no cooler part of the city than Temple Bar.

Google faced a deadline yesterday to defend changes to its shopping service that left old foes clamouring for a new wave of EU anti-competitive fines.

The mother of 14-year-old Aoife Winterlich ,who died in a scouting accident at Hook Head, paid tribute to rescue services “who did everything possible” to save her.

Carol O’Callaghan gets an update from design and lifestyle boutique owners on what’s new for autumn and winter and their personal favourites. 

The much-loved 1720 Sportsboard class comes to one of Ireland’s favourite sailing venues this week for a national championship that mixes the best aspects of amateur sailing.

Gordon D’Arcy is busy meeting the demands of his multi-tasking career as a businessman, TV commentator and sports columnist.

IT is incredible to think that over a year has passed since the tragic deaths of six young students when a balcony collapsed in Berkeley, California, and yet only now are the authorities reluctantly on the brink of changing the building code to ensure rogue contractors never cause such accidents again.

Irish rugby stars past and present will line out this Saturday in support of Berkeley balcony collapse victim Aoife Beary.

A mother was refused a payment out of her child’s personal injury award so that she can buy a car.

Aoife Beary, one of the survivors of the Berkeley balcony collapse, has woken from her coma and is no longer in a critical condition.

The family of Aoife Beary who remains in a critical condition after falling from a collapsed balcony in Berkeley, California, last month are expecting her recovery to be “long and slow”.

It may be twinned with Waterford, but the Maltese military’s ‘snub’ of an offer to take the naval vessel LÉ Aoife free of charge has angered Cork county councillors.

Eoin Edwards talks to Peadar Ó Riada about the final of this week’s competition named in honour of his father

Don’t worry, he's alright now.

The Cork family of four-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier ’Irek’ were devastated when he went missing last week, and after five days of looking they had almost given up hope.

Spectacular conditions on Roaringwater Bay rewarded the 76 boats competing in Cork Dry Gin Calves Week yesterday as the race committee opted to bring forward the long race around the Fastnet lighthouse from today’s original schedule.

Welcome to your Monday morning briefing. Let us ensure you’re up to speed on what’s happening and are prepared for the day ahead.

Helen Campbell was pushing 60 when she decided to go on a road trip, she tells Margaret Jennings.

Una Foden "definitely" wants to have more children.

A High Court judge has said it is “incredible” to accept claims by members of Seán Quinn’s family they cannot produce documents concerning alleged contracts of employment with Russian companies from which they were paid “very large” sums totalling almost €2m in a “very strange way”.

It’s now Coke with an Irish twist as Coca-Cola has replaced its iconic white lettered logo with some of Ireland’s most popular names.

LET me set the scene — Johnny won’t eat a breakfast, Aoife’s lunchbox arrives back untouched, Jack refuses his dinner and Emma won’t touch the veggies.

Senior gardaí are to meet with concert promoters MCD after violence marred a weekend concert in Phoenix Park, leaving one person dead and nine treated for stab wounds.

Gardaí are today searching for Aoife Finan, 19, from Cobh, Co Cork, who has been missing since last Saturday.

A new generation of ships being built for the naval service will carry unmanned planes along with deep sea search and rescue robot submarines.

In front of his local home crowd, Mikey O’Connor dominated yesterday’s marathon 10-race point-to-point fixture at Liscarroll by partnering no less than five winners.

THE Dublin coroner has recommended that emergency services in the south-east be reviewed to ensure ambulances are properly directed to patients’ homes.

I’M having a Greta Garbo moment: I just want to be left alone. Apparently, Minister for Health Dr James Reilly is seeking New York-style public health legislation in an effort “to stop the epidemic of cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic lung diseases and diabetes, which kill three in five people” — as if we don’t all have to die of something.

A TEENAGE girl was killed instantly when a makeshift sleigh travelling at almost 60km/h down a steep slope collided with a tree following heavy snowfall last winter.

BITS of a three-year-old child’s flesh were speared on the prongs of a toy rake following an accident at her creche, a judge heard yesterday.

DIGNITARIES will feast on some of Cork’s landmark buildings today ahead of the Queen’s arrival in the historic English Market.