Pole dancing has come a long way from its sleazy, seedy club origins and could become an Olympic sport, writes Abi Jackson

The more deprived the area a child lives in, the greater their chances of being taken into care, with poverty and domestic abuse “key drivers” of demand for child protection services.

A LIMERICK City Council employee who claims he was refused permission to charge his electric bike at the city’s main fire station has co-sponsored the first free electric vehicle charging bay in Ireland.

THE growing belief that the majority of sexual violence against males happened in institutions is a myth, a conference will hear later this month.

The parents of a 19-year-old student thought to be one of the youngest women in Britain to die from breast cancer spoke today of the "devastating" moment their daughter lost her final battle.