The son of a woman whose body was discovered in a shallow grave in a nature reserve has been charged in connection with her murder.

WHEN gardaí in Wexford got a call from the skipper of the Willie B on April 3, 2010, they knew who was the man for the job.

A Scottish university is set to run a course about comic book characters.

SCIENTISTS have created an image of how they believe a man whose body was found in a Galway woods three years ago might have looked.

BABIES pushed in buggies facing away from their parents could suffer lasting psychological harm, scientists claimed yesterday.

Researchers have identified an enzyme which could prove crucial in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease, it was revealed today.

THE controversial revisionist historian Dr Peter Hart is to speak on political violence at the Irish Historical Society in UCC on Tuesday next. One of the events in Irish history on which Dr Hart made his reputation is the Kilmichael ambush of November 1920.

TV presenter Lorraine Kelly was taking part in a special inauguration ceremony involving a pub crawl as she was installed as a rector of a university today.

A sniffer device used in the search for new reserves of oil and gas could be used as a form of breathalyser to detect early signs of lung cancer, experts said today.

IRISH under-21 captain John Lyne is out of Ireland’s World Cup quest in England this week.

The Ireland Under 21 Squad will be captained by No.8/Flanker, Steven Keogh of UCC, to take part in the IRB Under 21 World Championship, in England from June 13 to 29.

Two men will today appear in court via video link in connection with an attack that left a university student dead.

A priest spoke today of a family’s grief as a 20-year-old man died without regaining consciousness after being beaten up outside a nightclub in Portrush, Co Antrim.

A British expert sent to investigate allegations of a massacre in the Jenin refugee camp has accused Israel of burying evidence about what happened during the military offensive in the camp.