The €9.5 million sale of Irish Life investment properties in Cork and Limerick includes two Patrick Street Cork units set for increased profile from next year, when the Capitol Cinema retail site is completed, bringing a strong anchor (Zara? H&M?) to this end of Patrick Street.

Cycling legend Sean Kelly hopes to help break the Tour de Munster’s €2m fundraising target for Down Syndrome Ireland by the weekend.

Lismore Castle Gardens & Gallery was the stunning venue for the official launch, on Tuesday 23rd June, of the 15th Annual Tour de Munster cycle in aid of Down Syndrome Ireland (DSI).

Dozens of children with Down Syndrome who had not previously been eligible for one-to-one special needs teaching in mainstream schools will get extra support from September.

Parents of children with Down syndrome due to start school this year remain unclear if they will have access to one-to-one special teaching.

Raising a child with Down syndrome is not without its highs and lows — with parents saying that support services differ wildly around the country, reports Arlene Harris.

The head of Down Syndrome Ireland has said people living with the condition should automatically be entitled to medical cards.

Five-year-old Tom and his sister May, four, will start school next September but their educational needs are quite different.

The Irish school system is failing children with Down syndrome, an expert on the education and development of children with the disability has told an Oireachtas committee.

WHEN Philip and Amy Keohane stood in Cork City centre last summer, watching scores of saddle-weary cyclists struggle up the near-vertical height of Patrick’s Hill, they cried.

Dozens of children with Down’s syndrome will fall further behind after Ruairi Quinn, the education minister, deferred any decision that would give them automatic entitlement to additional teaching, a campaign group claims.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn’s decision to re-examine de facto cuts to resource teachers for children with Down’s syndrome has received a cautious welcome from families affected by the condition.

The general allocation model provides learning support teachers for an estimated 66,000 pupils, while around 21,400 primary and 9,800 second-level pupils receive resource teaching sanctioned by the National Council for Special Education based on professional assessments of a range of more complex needs.

The Department of Education took more than a year to properly follow up concerns about some children with Down’s syndrome being excluded from guaranteed resource teaching hours.

A former Prime Minister of Thailand has been charged with murder in the latest twist in a political war between supporters and opponents of another ex-leader, Thaksin Shinawatra.

Thai law enforcement authorities have decided to file a murder charge against former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in the first prosecutions of officials related to a deadly 2010 crackdown on anti-government protests.

From high kicks to creamy licks, Michael Flatley opened his lavish north Cork home yesterday for an ice cream party with a worthy twist.

Rugby legend Ronan O’Gara has backed charity cyclists who are saddling up to help fund Down Syndrome Ireland (DSI).

TOUR de Munster (TdeM) is an annual fixture on the cycling calendar, with Irish cycling legend Sean Kelly completing the last three.

PRETTY little Emily and Danni Coleman jumped on their trikes to help launch one of the country’s biggest fundraising bike rides.

PERSONS with an intellectual disability are often educated and articulate and want to live independently and the legal community needs to recognise that and engage with them, the head of Down Syndrome Ireland (DSI) said yesterday.

MOST of us enjoy a night at the dogs and next month people will have the opportunity to bring the whole family out for a good cause.

Hundreds of families will benefit from a new website launched by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today.

Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra today had a second set of arrest warrants issued against him in his native Thailand.

SMILES, laughter and a good dollop of ice cream — it was the perfect ingredients for the launch of HB Ice Cream Sunday in support of Down Syndrome Ireland (DSI).

YOU can’t beat an ice cream on a spring day - and Hugh Brophy, three, and Ciara O’Brien, 16 months, certainly agreed yesterday.

More than 300 athletes from places as far flung as Taiwan, India and Turkmenistan will come to Ireland this autumn to take part in the International Down Syndrome Swimming Championships, which are due to take place in Limerick.

MORE than 300 competitors from as far away as Taiwan, India and Turkmenistan will take part in the International Down Syndrome Swimming Championships in Limerick from September 3 to 10.

DOWN Syndrome Ireland (DSI) has welcomed reports that British scientists have successfully transplanted human chromosomes into mice in a bid to uncover the genetic causes of the condition.

AILBHE ERRITY was a picture of concentration as she and her young pals spooned the ice cream yesterday.

FIVE-YEAR-OLD Lily Mullen attended school for the first time yesterday but there was no special needs assistant (SNA) to help her through the day.

WHEN Brian Murphy was born 18 years ago today, his mother Kathleen learned her youngest child of four boys and two girls had Down’s Syndrome.