Zac Higgins, from Mahon in Cork city, was diagnosed with a diffuse axonal injury (DAI) to the brain following the incident.

A toddler who was diagnosed with a brain injury after he was knocked down in a hit and run last month is sitting up, smiling and laughing but cannot yet speak or walk.

A two-year-old boy who was knocked down in a hit and run in Mahon on the south side of Cork city has been diagnosed with a diffuse axonal injury (DAI) to the brain.

A fundraising campaign set up just days ago to help with treatment costs for a Cork toddler badly injured in a hit-and-run last week has already generated more than €12,000 in donations.

The entire Mahon community is rallying around the family of toddler Zac Higgins, who was injured in a hit-and-run a week ago.

Two-year-old Zac Higgins incurred serious injuries when he ran onto the road while playing with a ball near Castle Meadows on the Skehard Road in Mahon in Cork city at about 4pm on Monday.

The father of a toddler who was left with serious injuries after a hit-and-run in Cork has said that he is “absolutely blown away” by the support from friends and family.

2-year-old Zac Higgins suffered a broken collarbone and shoulder blade, and a bleed to the brain after being struck by a car while playing at about 3.50pm on Monday in Castle Meadows estate on the Skehard Road in Mahon.

This week I’m taking you through my most asked food questions and the answers I find myself giving. Recipe-wise it’s my husband Peter’s salmon burgers plus a delicious tzatziki recipe that goes perfectly with them.

Chicago, New York, San Francisco… Kieran Bergin has watched Tipperary games from some unusual places and last Sunday he added Cork University Hospital to the list, his wife Aishling delivering Cillian.

It is being reported that a three-year-old boy has died suddenly in Wexford.

This week’s column is a bit of background about my work and my team. I’m talking all about slow cooking for my recipes.

This week I’m focusing on vegetarian diets and the move towards more plant based eating. I’m also sharing two of my favourite veggie recipes for you to try.

Update - Monday, August 21, 7.15pm: Aishling Donnelly has been found safe and well.

As the citizens’ assembly meets today, we examine the debate around one aspect of the Eighth Amendment through the stories of two women and their experience of fatal foetal abnormality

A well-known Tipperary publican and farmer who had a passion for vintage machinery died on Wednesday evening while starting a vintage lorry, one of his four devastated children said.

Cavan 10-25 Down 0-3

The reduction in the sentence for Paul Begley was welcomed far and wide.

DAVID Spillane has never let his cystic fibrosis (CF) affect his life. “Even as a teenager, I was running with my local team and playing football with my local club,” says David, 23, an artist living in Tralee, Co Kerry.

It was third time lucky for Carlow woman Aishling Kearney after an invitation to enter a competition led to her landing a modelling contract.

THE tiny villages of Camp and Annascaul in Kerry ground to a halt over the weekend as parishioners paid their last respects to a young sporting hero who died suddenly.

PREPARING to break the hearts of 31 women who have just been handed hurleys is every man’s worst nightmare, but an Irish singing sensation is still managing to take it all in his stride.

Carol Coffey

TIPPERARY outfit Brian Boru’s held on for victory in a thrilling Tesco All-Ireland Ladies IFC club final yesterday.

A pilot plunged to his death after telling friends he would do a few last aerobatic tricks in his home-built plane as he took off for home to his family, it emerged today.