Anton Savage and Sheana Keane present new adult literacy series, Get the Numbers Write, on TV3 on Monday.

It’s a world away from the glitz and glamour of the Dome in Tralee last August.

BRITISH poet and author Blake Morrison has earned a strong international reputation for his work, wining a string of literary awards along the way.

For every soft toy or children’s book sold in IKEA between October 20 and January 4, the IKEA Foundation will donate €1 to children’s education through UNICEF and Save the Children.

Tommy Robinson has said he left the English Defence League (EDL) after realising the organisation had become “part of the problem” in his quest against Islamic extremism, rather than a solution.

Flu season is imminent and while cosmetics can’t cure streaming eyes or a sore throat, there are some wonderful beauty treats to soothe your skin and senses.

“It’s just like Slumdog Millionaire, except in the film you don’t experience the smell.”

Children all over the country will be making their lists, and checking them twice as they tune into The Late Late Toy Show.

While most Leaving Cert students are stressing about college applications and upcoming exams, 17-year-old Jessica Knoblauch has been busy launching her first album.

PAT HERLIHY spent years sitting at the front window of his home or driving around the streets of Cork looking for his daughter.

LAST Friday (September 30) was National Day of Volunteering; now is a time when I believe we should celebrate the significance of what it is to be a volunteer.

THE whole gastro pub scene hasn’t quite taken off in Ireland in quite the same way as in Britain where some of the very best food is to be found in comfy grungy pubs often with mismatched wooden furniture and crockery, serving gorgeous non-fussy seasonal food.

AT the start of this school year, Anne Copplestone, nurse at the South Infirmary and volunteer at the HOPE Foundation, came in to my school to talk to my transition year about the opportunity to go out to Calcutta and visit the HOPE projects over there to see the work they were doing.

Lonely astronauts on the International Space Station may soon be getting an android friend from Japan – and for the folks back home, it will tweet.

The ringleader of a car-cloning gang was jailed for nine and a half years today, just hours after being caught by police at a holiday park while on the run.

You just can’t keep College Causeway out of the headlines.

ELEVATION: the Hewsons are famous for it, be it the name of a U2 tour or the top of a tower – where Ali wound up at the weekend in a fundraiser for the Chernobyl Children’s Project International (CCPI).

HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Jonathan Rhys Meyers took on a new role yesterday — as ambassador for the Hope Foundation.

Hollywood star Jonathan Rhys Myers today revealed his plans to champion the rights of children living on the streets of Calcutta.

The shuttle Atlantis blasted off today with Europe’s gift to the international space station, a $2bn (€1.6bn) science lab named Columbus that spent years waiting to set sail.

Astronauts aboard the international space station readied for a second space walk today, preparing to work on the outside of the new Harmony addition and inspect a couple of areas of concern on the orbiting outpost.

RAISA Carolan from Belarus yesterday recalled the “mostly bad” times she experienced in the orphanage she left four years ago to live with her adopted parents in Ireland.

Paul Gascoigne has been arrested after an alleged assault outside a city-centre hotel.

THERE’S fashion in food just like everything else. Foodies are always intrigued by the latest trends on the gastronomic circuit.

A London sweet shop is using ration books as the latest weapon in the fight against childhood obesity.

A sweet shop is using ration books as the latest weapon in the fight against childhood obesity, it emerged today.

AID agencies Trócaire and Concern will between them donate €2 million towards victims of the tsunami disaster, matching the Government's contribution.

THE Hope Foundation has received €100,000 from the Government to assist its work with the street children of Calcutta.

THE Calcutta-based Hope Foundation was not prepared to accept the €40,000 ordered to be paid to charity by child porn offender Tim Allen.