Harbour pilot Ciaran Monks helps guide the Royal Princess into Cobh on the new series of Cork Mega Port on TV3.

Helen O’Callaghan says it’s important to encourage children to eat a wide variety of food and to start from a very early age so they can absorb a wide range of nutrients.

Under-20 RBS 6 Nations

Although Gemma Carcaterra was steeped in theatre from an early age, the artistic director and CEO of Glór in Ennis, Co Clare, was more interested in working behind the scenes than in performing. 

A white summer dress made famous in the iconic Tennis Girl poster of the 1970s has fetched £15,500 (€19,500) at auction.

A white summer dress made famous in the iconic Tennis Girl poster of the 1970s is to be auctioned.

There have been fresh claims about the standard of the police investigation into the murder of Michaela McAreavey as a man dubbed the prime suspect in her death has denied any involvement.

Don’t look now, but we think there’s a spy hiding in your pocket.

SJ WATSON, has always written, but he was good at science as well. So he decided that science would be his career, and writing his hobby.

A MEMORIAL service takes place today for a towering figure in Irish medicine who died before Christmas.

BRITISH maestro Edward Downes, who conducted the BBC Philharmonic and the Royal Opera has died with his wife, Joan, at anassisted suicide clinic in Switzerland. He was 85 and she was 74.

One of Ireland’s top diplomats who opened the first Irish embassy in Moscow during the Cold War is standing down after decades representing the country around the world, he revealed today.

ALAN McCORMACK gave another sensational performance in yesterday’s Woodies DIY national inter-counties cross-country championships at Tramore Racecourse when leading Dublin to the team honours.

ELY, the property division of Newcourt Group, has acquired a site in Birmingham for €10 million on which it plans to build student accommodation.

Jo Pavey endured a few difficult moments before winning yesterday’s SPAR European Cross Country trial in Liverpool.

COUPLES who are struggling to have children can now test their fertility in the privacy of their own homes with a simple kit costing €120.

A DO-IT-YOURSELF fertility test for men which provides couples trying to conceive with an early warning system for potential reproductive problems will be available in Ireland from next week.

THE National Roads Authority has vehemently denied that the EU has registered repeated complaints about the absence of suitable crash barriers on motorway medians.

Myra Hindley has supplied three maps to forensic archaeologists searching for the last missing body of the Moors Murders victims, a new documentary is to reveal.