Tributes have been paid to Garrett Fitzgerald, the Munster Rugby CEO who oversaw the province's greatest days. He died on Friday, aged 65.

Garrett Fitzgerald, the straight-talking Munster-to-the-core rugby man, who oversaw the province’s greatest days as coach and CEO, has passed away.

Thomas Carton, 55, died Wednesday night at a house in Torc Terrace, Killarney.

When the Irish Examiner broke the news that an ultra-inquisitive deer photobombed newlyweds at Killarney’s Ladies View the story went viral.

It's a crazy world. On Sunday, I followed the reports of the G7 Summit. All these leaders of the Western world were avoiding saying anything that would annoy US President Donald Trump, while struggling with the notion that this is a man who, for any reason at all, could shatter years, even decades, of carefully constructed agreements and institutions.

There are not too many Kerry GAA supporters who have won four All-Ireland medals for Cork, but Shauna Kelly is an exception to that rule.

Sometimes, a must-watch comedy hits our screens: This Way Up is exactly that. Georgia Humphreys meets its creator and star, comedian Aisling Bea, to find out what inspired it

Joe Dermody looks at this week's business movers

Tributes have been paid to Munster chief executive Garrett Fitzgerald who will retire from the role next month.

The widow of a 79-year-old man who died as a result of spending 36 years of his working life being repeatedly exposed to asbestos particles has settled her High Court action.

Six finalist teams also met Chinese officials on knowledge transfer visit at Certified Irish Angus exhibition centre at Ploughing, writes Stephen Cadogan.

O'Gorman made her international debut aged just 16, and would go on to score on 13 occasions for Ireland.

Cork’s perfect All-Ireland final record is no more. It was inevitable that defeat would eventually darken our door some September Sunday - you were just hoping it wouldn’t be yesterday, writes Valerie Mulcahy

Meet Mum Deirdre Murphy and daughter Áine Flynn hail from Courtlough, Co. Dublin.

THERE’S luck and there’s talent, and in rough-and-tumble contact sports one often depends on the other. But for All-Star winning hurler Ollie Canning it’s all down to luck.

Áine Hannafin is a lively seven-year-old girl who will not let anything stand in her way, not even a severe form of cystic fibrosis (CF).

A coroner has returned a verdict of medical misadventure at the inquest into the death of a nine-month baby with a congenital heart condition.

“Aodhán, you brought smiles to people’s faces, your witty comments, your dry sense of humour, and sometimes mimicking people.”

The 14-year-old boy who died after suffering a head injury in a schools cup match, in Dingle, in Co Kerry, has been described by the principal of Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne as a “gentle, soft-spoken, level-headed boy”.

Tributes have been paid to a young Kerry GAA player who died after an accidental clash during a school final.

A Donegal man who is currently on the waiting list for a lung transplant has called on people to carry organ donor cards and spoke about how a new lung would change his life.

Glanmire 77 Brunell 66: The sheets of post-match statistics don’t lie, but they don’t always capture the cut- through narrative of a ball game. 

"However after the cull, I then realised that there were 39 people who, despite being in regular contact with, I had never met."

Two former British soldiers accused of murdering an Official IRA commander in Northern Ireland are asking for their identities to be withheld during court proceedings, a judge has been told.

Áine Mae O’Mahony became blind at the age of 25, but she discovered the strength to deal with this blow, saying we can find positivity in even the darkest times, writes Ciara O’Donnell

In this age of not so much creeping globalisation as remorseless, relentless globalisation, the importance of shopping local scarcely needs to be emphasised. Thankfully geographical serendipity makes it easy for your correspondent to do his bit.

Most of my childhood photos are of me lying unconscious in the most unlikely of places, mouth agape, drooling unattractively, writes Louise O’Neill.

There has always been a certainty with Áine that no matter what happened we would always be connected, says Louise O’Neill.

I don’t have any issues with my age. This shouldn’t seem like an extraordinary statement but sometimes it feels as if getting older, particularly for women, is a fate worse than death and must be warded off at all costs whether that’s through the ritualistic sacrifice of young virgins or a self-portrait putrefying in the attic. You do you, babe.

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Limerick mother Aine Laffan cooked up a New Year’s Day storm in her kitchen as she delivered her son Odhran on the kitchen floor.

Limerick mother Aine Laffan cooked up a New Year's Day storm in her kitchen as she delivered her son Odhran on the kitchen floor.

Two former British soldiers are to be prosecuted for allegedly murdering an Official IRA man in the North.

The Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust has confirmed it has stepped in to assist the family of champion Irish rower Ailish Sheehan in returning her body home to Co Limerick.

A go-fund-me page, set up to help the family of champion athlete Ailish Sheehan, who tragically passed away last Friday from injuries sustained in a fall, has raised nearly $10,000.

Tributes have poured in for a champion Irish athlete who sustained serious head injuries in a freak fall just hours after celebrating winning a bronze medal at the FISU World University Rowing Championships, in Poznan, Poland.

His rides may be sparse at the moment, but amongst the carefully chosen mounts is ample opportunity for Ruby Walsh to shine in a manner which few, if any, could dream to achieve. 

I love team environments. I love the competitiveness when you come up against your opponent.

Only one in 20 dementia patients who die each year pass away at home, research by the Irish Hospice Foundation shows.

The edgy singer performed her own song, Black Dahlia with the talented Johnston accompanying her on keyboards.