The shocking image of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi lying dead on a Turkish beach transformed the language of the European migration debate as it appeared on 20m screens around the world in just 12 hours, according to social media analysis.

It isn’t every day that Trinity College students get the pleasure of seeing their professor endure a head to toe drenching but, then, Orla Hardiman is not your everyday academic.

Harry Styles' sister is hoping to launch a pop career.

Alcohol consumption has dropped in Canada by between 3%-8% after minimum prices were introduced, a leading expert has said.

Hilary Mantel is no stranger to the Man Booker Prize.

A British student has warned of the dangers of drinking counterfeit alcohol after a bottle of cut-price vodka left her with damaged eyesight.

Homeless people can expect to die 30 years before the average person, research has found.

Children who struggle to speak at the age of two are less likely to do well when they start primary school, research suggests.

US detectives are investigating how two British holiday-makers came to be shot dead in a rundown neighbourhood in Florida.

US detectives are investigating how two British holidaymakers came to be shot dead in a rundown neighbourhood in Florida.

British scientists claim to have discovered the biggest star in history.

Damien Enright hears alarm bells ringing for fish stocks.

Politicians in the UK have called for food safety experts to carry out further tests on a preservative used in some soft drinks.

THE native red squirrel, once a common animal in many parts of the country, is under threat from the American grey squirrel which came here about 100 years ago.

THE ROBINS of Sheffield have had enough. The noise of England’s fourth largest city is just too much for them and they have given up trying to compete with the din.

The 4HOME chain of home and garden superstores is to open new stores in Bandon, Ballincollig and Cobh.

A European-built probe blasted into space today in a bid to explore Earth’s mysterious neighbour, Venus.

David Beckham joined Tony Blair today for a chaotic photocall designed to boost London’s 2012 Olympic bid.

A PARTIALLY-SIGHTED woman told an inquest yesterday how her two-day old son died after she apparently fell asleep having breast fed him in a maternity ward bed.

TWO British Home Office experts yesterday concluded that injuries sustained by cattle dealer Ritchie Barron in his mystery Co Donegal roadside death nearly seven years ago were most likely the result of a road accident.

Two British Home Office experts today concluded that injuries sustained by cattle dealer Richie Barron in his mystery Co Donegal roadside death nearly seven years ago were most likely the result of a road accident.