If you want to guarantee your make-up isn’t tested on animals anywhere, Pam Ryan has the essential guide to transitioning your make-up kit on budget.

The head of research at the Irish Cancer Society has praised the designer of immune cell therapy which was used to reverse leukaemia in a one-year-old girl, and said it demonstrates how important such research is.

They’ve overcome so much in their short lives that starting big school tomorrow should be a breeze for Ireland’s best-known twins.

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A boy who was born without any ears has had a pair created from his own ribs – based on his mother’s ear shape.

A boy born without any ears has had a pair created from his own ribs.

It was a day she thought would never happen. But thanks to the generosity of the Irish public, her Christmas miracle has come true.

A British toddler is preparing to go home for the first time in her life after spending almost three years at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

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Music festival season kicks off next weekend with Oxegen and then it’s a long hot summer with weekend revels packing out the calendar until the leaves start to fall.

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy has become the smallest person in Britain to have a successful lung transplant.

Twin baby girls mauled by a fox as they slept remained in hospital today as London Mayor Boris Johnson said councils should “focus on their duties for pest control”.

IT WAS the moment they dreamt of but feared would never happen. After weeks of unimaginable stress, parents Angie and Azzedine Benhaffhaf enjoyed their happy ending as they brought their little fighters home to Ireland.

TWINS Hassan and Hussein Benhaffhaf could be home within days to begin leading a normal life.

IRELAND’S miracle twins Hassan and Hussien Benhaffhaf are due to fly home today just six weeks after the successful operation to separate them.

Separated twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf are to leave hospital tomorrow.

Five-month-old conjoined twins separated by surgeons will be released from hospital within days, doctors said today.

MIRACLE twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf have left intensive care and have been cuddled by their parents for the first time since their separation operation.

IRISH twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf, who were separated in a 14-hour operation a fortnight ago, are stable and making progress every day, doctors in London said last night.

THE parents of Ireland’s little fighters have paid an emotional tribute to their twins’ “courage and strength” after the operation to separate them was declared a success.

THE Bishop of Cork and Ross will lead the nation in prayer today for Ireland’s conjoined twins as they begin their longest day.

IRELAND’S conjoined twins underwent the first of several tests at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London yesterday ahead of their separation surgery.

THE mother of Ireland’s youngest conjoined twins has asked the nation to pray for them as they face major surgery within weeks to separate them.

Natasha and Courtney Smith, the conjoined twins born nearly three weeks ago, died in hospital today, doctors treating them said.