Transition year students at St Colman's in Fermoy, Co Cork recorded a version of "Lean on Me" which they released last year.

The 2018 Musgrave Triathlon has raised an astonishing €250,000 for three extremely worthy causes.

“At the thought of getting Finn the right support, I’d run five marathons back-to-back,” declares Sinead Lucey.

Jen Hogan looks at how we can help our children engage in the true meaning of Christmas by helping others and focusing on presence, not presents.

Students are being warned by University College Cork management of the disciplinary and legal repercussions of misbehaving or disrespecting local residents ahead of their annual fundraising week.

Each week we profile one of the runners taking part in the ‘Irish Examiner’ Cork City Marathon this June

A former director of a children’s charity has claimed CCTV footage he has given to gardaí will contradict a claim by the charity’s founder that a theft took place from its ambulance at last year’s National Ploughing Championships.

A charity set up by the father of two children who died of a rare and fatal disease is the subject of a preliminary review by the charities’ watchdog on foot of complaints about governance and an alleged theft.

Gardai have confirmed members of a criminal gang who broke into a farmhouse and discovered the decomposing corpses of a fraudster and her partner, are not likely to face charges of breaking and entering until the investigation into the couple's deaths is concluded.

The head of a children’s charity and the manager of a Galway-based company have told of their encounters with conwoman Julia Holmes, who is believed to have been found dead with her partner Tom Ruttle in their home in Askeaton, Co Limerick, on Monday morning.

A con artist with a number of known aliases, Julia Holmes drew the attention of authorities here, in the North, and in the US where she perpetrated a number of frauds, duping people out of hundreds of thousands of euro.

It's the social media sensation that presidents, taosigh, astronauts, sportstars and even grannies couldn't resist, says Kelly O'Brien

Whistleblowers Maurice McCabe and John Wilson have been honoured for their efforts to expose corruption in An Garda Síochána at an awards ceremony at the weekend.

Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh was born in Boston but raised in Shrule, Co Mayo.

A founder of a custom-built ambulance service set up specifically to provide transport for very sick children has described as "mindless" the theft of €800 worth of equipment from the vehicle while it was on display at the National Ploughing Championships.

Equipment has been stolen from a children's ambulance at the National Ploughing Championships in Co Laois.

One lucky Irish Euromillions winner woke up €86.7 million richer this morning. It’s a mind-boggling sum and most people are wondering how they could possibly spend it. Here are our suggestions:

A proven Iron Man is training to become a Hard Man — all for a good cause.

Laughter will be the best medicine on board the world’s first interactive children’s ambulance, which will travel the roads of Ireland taking the trauma out of a little one’s hospital visit.