There will be more than 100 exhibitors at this year’s SMA Baby Club Pregnancy and Baby Fair, which opens at the RDS tomorrow, where visitors can view the latest buggies, car seats and other baby products and services from nursery brands and retailers. 

FIRST Holy Communions are on the horizon. Parents can feel under pressure to produce the day of days for their son or daughter so plan ahead to avoid struggling with the cost.

POOL PLAYERS: Swim Ireland’s third Swim for a Mile Challenge will take place in 12 pools nationwide during the first week of April.

Clean and clever: Stokke, which launched its iconic Tripp Trapp chair in 1972, has a reputation for smart, sustainable children’s products with Scandinavian style.

THEY strip off at every match to don the black jersey but for these daring referees, it is a whole new ball game — so to speak.

THERE were shocked faces and screams of delight at St Colmcille’s National School, Knocklyon and Presentation Convent, Drogheda yesterday as X Factor double-act, Jedward, paid students a visit.

CASH-strapped consumers are selling their old mobile phones to recycling companies for as little as €5, rather than donate them directly to charity.

FAMILIES eager to enjoy the sunshine and raise funds for severely ill children at the same time are being encouraged to visit an unique event in Wicklow this weekend.

LITTLE Jack Irwin’s short life inspired a new charity that is giving vital help to 220 families of children and babies with severe developmental delay.

WHO would choose to take to the water on Friday the Thirteenth in - of all transports - a cardboard boat? Our intrepid quartet didn’t look or talk crazy yesterday as they rowed up the Liffey in the unusual craft, a freshening easterly astern.