Young people are increasingly turning to Facebook to mourn the loss of a loved one and to continue to ‘connect’ with the deceased’s digital profile.

Sony’s PlayStation network was taken offline "due to a distributed denial of service attack", the company has said.

Halle Berry took the Global Icon gong at the Huading Film Awards in LA.

Actress Lindsay Lohan’s Irish ancestry could prove a worthwhile study for genealogists with reported family links to Cork and Galway.

It seems the country's newest mascot Network Noel has hit his stride.

US soldier Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for giving hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.

Mobile network Three suffered an embarrassing services meltdown - just hours after an investment announcement hailing the firm as a major market competitor.

Charlize Theron is in talks to star in crime thriller 'Dark Places'.

Reformed drug cheat David Millar fears Lance Armstrong’s appearance on Oprah Winfrey’s show next week will be “stage-managed”.

Matthew McConaughey married his long term love Camila Alves yesterday.

We welcome the Oireachtas Justice Committee initiative under Deputy David Stanton to hear from interested parties on legal capacity prior to publication of this important bill.

The Vatican orthodoxy watchdog today announced a full-scale overhaul of the largest umbrella group for nuns in the United States.

New teachers lack the social skills needed to cope with large classrooms of children, partly because they are chosen for teacher training courses on their academic achievements alone.

AS WE go to press, the state troopers and the cops are moving, in Los Angeles, to take out the Occupy LA folks. “Take them out” doesn’t mean shoot them.

THE recent cyber attacks at Sony are just the latest in a increasingly long string of assaults on the databases of major firms across the globe.

Sony has been hit by a second massive data breach, hackers claim, another potential embarrassment for a company that is struggling to restore its image following the loss of millions of credit card numbers through its PlayStation Network.

SONY could face legal action across the globe after it delayed disclosing a security breach of its popular PlayStation Network, infuriating gamers and sending the firm’s shares down nearly 5% yesterday.

THE statistics tell the official story but word-of-mouth paints a starker picture of the shift back towards the age-old curse of mass emigration.

Daytime superstar Oprah Winfrey will be moving to nighttime to host a show on her new cable channel.

MORE focus on the quality of teachers is a critical factor in improving the education system, a former top civil servant has claimed.

CONTRIBUTIONS to RTÉ’s Spirit Level programme (June 28) showed there is an ongoing need to hold to account religious congregations who even still wish to cast themselves as the victimised and betrayed.

AS someone who has been sentenced to a life of paralysis, let me say that I support UCC’s decision to vote in favour of embryonic stem cell research.

THE head of the Rape Crisis Network has said she agrees with actress Helen Mirren that female jurors could be less likely to sympathise with a rape victim — but for different reasons.

EU AGRICULTURE ministers will vote today on a highly controversial GM potato that, according to the World Health Organisation, could make people resistant to some antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections.

CARDINAL Sean Brady has strongly rejected suggestions that Catholic schools are non-inclusive and said such claims are unfair and offensive.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Dermot Ahern TD will launch Digiweb’s New Data and Network Operations Centre and Fibre Network this afternoon in Blanchardstown, Dublin.

LIKE Howard Beale in Network, he’s mad as hell and he’s not going to take it any more.

IF great comedy is all about masking painful truths, then Clinton Morrison is a great comedian.

Some Irish workers are being forced to spend more on childcare than on their mortgages, it emerged today.

THE GOVERNMENT has given the contract to manage operate high-speed internet networks to Limerick firm E-Net.

The European Forecasting Network, a group of independent economists, has said the euro zone's recovery is set to remain modest.

The Citywide Family Support Network is calling on the Government to formally recognise the key role families have to play in dealing with problem drug use.

Lennox Lewis insists he has parted company with his long-time manager Frank Maloney on good terms.