At just 25 years old, David Beirne's life was turned upside-down when he was diagnosed with kidney failure.

It’s Dancing with the Stars finale weekend. Esther McCarthy goes behind the scenes to meet the backstage team

Kay Harte is proprietor of the Farmgate Cafe at the English Market in Cork.

Ellen Keane delivered on her billing as one to watch at the World Para Swimming Allianz European Championships as she clinched the bronze medal yesterday. In a thrilling race it was Keane that was able to hold her nerve and touch in third place.

Operation Transformation host Kathryn Thomas joins Ryan Tubridy on The Late Late Show this Friday to talk about her big plans for 2018.

A group of sheds that have been transformed into the new O’Donoghue Centre for Theatre, Drama and Performance at NUI Galway has been selected for a top architecture award.

When is a tree house not a tree house? When it’s a play tower, says Rose Martin, who went to the village of Glanworth to see what you can do when you don’t have a tree to hang a house on top.

Ailbhe Keane began creating stylish spoke guards for her wheelchair-using sister Isabel. They now have a proper business, writes Ruth O’Connor

What started out as a final-year college project has developed into a fully-fledged business.

Sinéad Ní Uallacháin is from Baile an Éanaigh, in the West Kerry Gaeltacht. She presents the weekday morning radio show, Sinéad ar Maidin, on Raidió na Gaeltachta, (10.15-11am, Mon-Fri). 

The sudden closure of a HSE-run dental clinic that treated thousands of children needing multiple extractions has exposed them to greater risk, says the Irish Dental Association.

Double heartbreak yesterday for Kerry school Coláiste na Sceilge in Basketball Ireland Schools’ League finals, losing both the U19 and U16 C Boys deciders after taking in half-time leads.

A family who won a luxury five-bedroom house as prices skyrocketed in the boom are handing it back for charity — bed-linen and all.

Horse Racing tycoon JP McManus made the largest bid at a private auction that has raised around over €100,000 for paralysed Limerick jockey JT McNamara.

The weather wasn’t quite stable but it took more than the threat of biblical-style floods to deter Ireland’s equestrian community who braved tumultuous downpours to attend the opening day of the 139th Dublin Horse Show at the RDS in Ballsbridge.

It might look like Chinese — in fact, it is — but the students who figure out this problem could be making online shopping or computer gaming much easier within a few years.

Lily and Ben were the most popular names for babies born in Ireland this year.

TRIBUTES were paid last night to a Irish civil servant, Dermot Nally, who played a key role in the peace process. Mr Nally died suddenly last night in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, aged 82.

FIANNA FÁIL’S Brian Crowley topped the poll in a mock European election vote yesterday in which all three of Ireland South’s MEPs retained their seats.

CHAMPION apprentice Chris Hayes enjoyed his trip to Roscommon last night, completing a double on Soviet Trooper and Miss Ailbhe on a bleak night for punters.

Zeroberto is set to reappear later this week after forming the middle leg of a brilliant treble for trainer Dermot Weld on the opening day of the Galway Festival.

Dermot Weld, the undisputed king of Galway, made a spectacular start to this year’s Festival with victory in the three races that opened the evening card at Ballybrit.

SEAN and Emma are the most popular Irish babies names for the second year in a row. There were 928 boys named Sean in the last year, 93 more than the second-most-popular name, Jack.

Sean and Emma were the most popular babies’ names last year, the second year in a row that they have been top.

CLIONA FITZGERALD could barely reach the piano keys when she started showing signs of a rare musical ability.

THE Irish Cadettes and cadets will compete in the Four Countries International Tournament this weekend with the girls in action in Killarney and the boys travelling to Derbyshire.

FIONNUALA McEVOY lost 13 babies over 12 years before finally giving birth to a daughter, Ailbhe, in January 2001.