Jacob Stockdale was just 13 years of age when he saw his Ireland heroes claim Ireland’s Grand Slam of 2009.

A team of SIX turned up to help.

Start-up businesses planning to take over vacant premises in Co Cork could benefit from a proposal to receive rate rebates over a three-year period.

Wales will not receive the RBS 6 Nations trophy in Rome next Saturday if they win this season’s title.

France has barred six people from leaving the country because they wanted to join extremists in Syria.

Rory Best has passed concussion testing and will start Ireland’s RBS 6 Nations clash with France on Saturday.

What to watch on the box tonight.

EMMA O’Driscoll is from Limerick and presents TV show Twigín on RTÉjr and Twigín on RTÉjr radio. She is a former member of the band Six.

Don’t allow the diminutive figure of Marian Earls fool you — the Wicklow town native is a powerful force which has helped many of the Irish women’s senior team become household names this last week.

Ireland skipper Paul O’Connell says there is no danger of them sitting on their laurels after the Six Nations triumph and that plenty of areas have been identified for improvement.

A 32-year-old local election candidate who was once a pop sensation has a secret canvassing weapon — hordes of children.

Some members of the wound up pension scheme of a company in the De Beers diamond manufacturing group have been left with no money and in great personal and financial distress, the Commercial Court heard yesterday.

In 1992, the Supreme Court ruled on the X case. After 21 years of inaction from six governments, the rules on abortion may finally change, writes Political Correspondent Mary Regan

Major changes to the Women’s Six Nations series are to undergo a vote in April.

The 2013 Six Nations came to an end for Ireland with a whimper in Rome, a far cry from the stunning first half against eventual champions Wales just six short weeks before.

Cian Healy will be available for Ireland's next Six Nations outing against France.

The GAA aren’t concerned about attendances at Sunday’s inter-county games being impacted by the Six Nations clash of France and Ireland.

Stephen Ferris says the Ulster and Munster players in the Ireland camp have not yet cranked up the slagging ahead of April’s Heineken Cup quarter-final.

THERE will be a reunion of sorts when Ireland and Italy’s front rows lock horns on Sunday and Irish scrum coach Greg Feek expects his band of brothers to present a much improved challenge to the one the Azzurri faced in Rome eight months ago.

SIX senior AIB executives conspired to undermine and damage the bank’s international financial services section for their own gain, the High Court has heard.

Six of 'Coronation Street's longest serving stars gather ahead of the show’s half-century milestone – and between them have clocked up 215 years on the cobbles.

SIX in 10 chief financial officers at Ireland’s top companies expect sales and profits to grow over the next six months, according to the latest Deloitte chief financial officers’ survey.

A GRIEVING son who lost his mother to cancer and a young woman whose baby died when he was just a day old were among the 10,000 participants in the four-mile Evening Echo Women’s Mini Marathon in Cork yesterday.

SIX members of a gang that used high-tech equipment to turn out illegal vodka at the rate of 24 bottles a minute were jailed for more than 56 years yesterday.

AMID the ever-rising numbers of people joining the dole queues, a study has exposed discrepancies in the amounts companies are willing to pay in redundancy when letting their staff go.

IRISH politics is famously full of “cute hoors”.

Stephen Ferris believes Ireland will face an England side carved in Martin Johnson’s image when the RBS 6 Nations rivals collide at Croke Park on Saturday.

IF THE Welsh public are guilty of bouts of extremism when assessing the well being or otherwise of their national side, then we in Ireland suffer similar mood swings.

Ireland coach Eddie O'Sullivan insists his policy on substitutes remains unchanged despite drawing heavy criticism for his stance.

ENGLAND flanker James Haskell has been engaging in gruelling Ultimate Fighting Championship-style training to hone his rugby skills.

SIX men charged with conspiring to steal almost €1 million from a cash-in-transit vehicle last Friday were remanded in custody yesterday.

Odin the white Bengal tiger has been showing off his jumping and swimming skills at a US theme park in California.

SIX former high-level political and military leaders of Serbia and the former Yugoslavia went on trial yesterday for alleged war crimes in Kosovo during the 1998-99 crackdown on ethnic Albanians.

AN ACHILLES tendon problem could rule Geordan Murphy out of Ireland’s second test with New Zealand on Saturday, and the way is open for Jeremy Staunton to make a long awaited return.

ENGLAND could add a Grand Slam-winning coach to their backroom team for this summer’s tour of Australia.

SIX leading hotels in the south-east have teamed up to bid for a greater share of the lucrative conference market.

Antonius Pius’s waywardness and a troubled passage for Six Perfections cost the European team dear as Singletary hung on grimly to land a dramatic NetJets Breeders’ Cup Mile at Lone Star Park today.

Eddie O’Sullivan has called on the RBS 6 Nations committee to review their policy of appointing inexperienced southern hemisphere referees.

Wales must brace themselves for a tougher task breaking down England’s defence than they faced against the All Blacks in Sydney last weekend.

ITALIAN coach John Kirwan believes Ireland have it all to do if they want to break into rugby’s Elite Four at October’s World Cup in Australia.