Irish neuroscientists researching a novel approach to brain repair for Parkinson's disease have got significant funding from the Michael J. Fox Foundation.

The Catholic Bishop-elect of Cork and Ross busted some serious dance moves as he promised to take on the mandate of renewal across the vast diocese.

The Company of Books in Dublin’s Ranelagh village is owned by Gwen Allman. It sells books, cards and stationery.

New Department of Education guidelines expected by next summer will tell schools that physically restraining or secluding children must not be used as disciplinary measures.

Glass from the Twin Towers and a rivet of 9/11 steel from the World Trade Center were donated to the Medal of Honour Exhibition in Kinsale, Co Cork over the weekend with 35 members of the New York Fire Department travelling over to the town for the ceremony.

Welcome to The Menu’s House of Love, a special loveheavy edition of this column.

You're never too old to enjoy 'the picnic'.

The Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork, Bishop Paul Colton has called for same sex marriages to be allowed in the church.

Majella O’Sullivan travels the Ring of Kerry Charity Cycle route, and goes off the beaten track to meet some of the charities that will benefit from the event. 

A writer of more than 35 horror novels as well as crime fiction tells Caroline Delaney of the chilling moment when art imitates life — sometimes on the streets of Cork.

The Department of Education has yet to tell primary school of its U-turn on linking school funding to compliance with a pupil database, according to a solicitor who is to bring a complaint to the European Commission over the initiative.

A number of teams getting into championship gear this weekend...

Article 41.2 of the Irish constitution declares that the State recognises the mother’s position within the home and “therefore endeavours to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.”

A national school’s High Court challenge, aimed at overturning the Department of Education’s direction compelling it to enrol a six- year-old boy with severe behavioural difficulties, has been resolved.

Jogging may be most beneficial in small doses, a study has concluded.

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A guard hailed a hero after the shooting dead of a gunman who stormed the Canadian parliament last year has been unveiled as the country’s new ambassador to Ireland.

If anybody has the right to be upset by the constant bickering going on around him, it is the Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann, Seán Barrett.

Irish lightweight David Oliver Joyce edged a step closer to qualifying for the Rio Olympics on Saturday and, along with Katie Taylor, scooped one of the top accolades at the Irish Amateur Boxing Association’s Awards Night in Dublin.

His autocratic style as leader of the Jesuits in Argentina was a chastening experience that shaped Pope Francis’ life and led to his transformation as champion of the poor, Paul Valley reports.

China’s president is to visit Ireland again following an invitation by President Higgins in Beijing.

Minister of State Sean Sherlock has hit back at one of his Labour Party colleagues who claimed a promised new school wouldn’t be built in the timeframe suggested by the senior politician.

Families and the law

Six coroners working on a part-time basis each earned more than €100,000 in State retainers and fees last year, new figures show.

Fionnuala Britton’s debut marathon catapulted her to fourth in the Irish all-time list as the double European cross-country champion finished tenth at the European Championships 26-miler in Zurich.

Slamming, body-rocking heat greeted the traveller in Manaus yesterday. When even the local taxi driver wipes his forehead and declares it’s "mucho calde" you know this isn’t a climate for the faint-hearted.

Institutes of technology could face industrial action by academic staff if they fail to consult them or try to change their conditions in any mergers to form technological universities (TUs), a union has warned.

An EU survey into the impact of pests and diseases on honey bees found death rates were lower than feared, in part countering concerns about the collapse of colonies of the crop-pollinating insects.

There comes a time in spring when The Menu pokes his nose into the air and draws deep a draught from the east, checking the wind for first stirrings of his beloved West Waterford Festival of Food in Dungarvan (April 10-14).

Paedophile rock singer Ian Watkins will be serving out his jail sentence in a prison that is home to some of Britain's most notorious sex offenders and killers.

After a long balmy summer on the beach, TDs finally got back to the business of running the country yesterday and in case they had forgotten what it’s all about they were greeted by the familiar voices of protest against austerity on the streets outside Dáil Éireann. Nothing had changed.

Just rewards

JOHN Stout doesn’t see himself as a hero but if courage, determination, and fortitude are the right ingredients then he is one of Ireland’s finest.

Lower paid civil service workers have decided to campaign for a no vote in next month’s referendum on the EU fiscal treaty.

The President of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) has said his members will be balloted on withdrawing from the Croke Park Agreement if teachers allowances are cut.

EU competition regulators are investigating whether marketing support and airport charges deals between Ryanair and operators at France’s Carcassonne airport gave the low-cost carrier an unfair advantage in breach of EU rules.

Last year’s winner Sweet Lightning has been taken out of the William Hill Lincoln, in which 2010 victor Penitent will now carry top weight at Doncaster on Saturday.

A 32-year-old woman was arrested today by detectives in Britain investigating allegations of corrupt payments made by journalists to public officials.