He won’t get the kind of send-off we’re used to or that he deserves, writes Kieran Shannon.

One of the best-known family-owned shops in Cork city is to close its city centre outlet after 40-years in business, citing the challenge from online shopping and access issues.

New Year celebrations were ignored in many towns and villages across Co Donegal last night as the body of tragic nurse Mary Ellen Molloy was brought home for burial.

Twenty-six-year-old Mary Ellen Molloy from Ardara, was killed in Melbourne when a branch from a tree fell on her taxi on December 20.

Mary Ellen was killed when the branch of a tree fell on the taxi in which she was traveling on Friday evening last in Melbourne.

A young Irish nurse has been killed in Australia after a tree fell onto a taxi she was travelling in.

Angela’s Ashes: The Musical at Cork Opera House brings some belly-laughs to Frank McCourt's tale, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Perimenopause can last for up to 10 years yet there is a lack of awareness

Jacinta Whyte tells Marjorie Brennan how audiences appreciate the lighthearted moments in the musical version of Angela’s Ashes

As the second eldest in a family of seven the new Bishop of Cork and Ross, Most Rev Fintan Gavin, is well versed in team work so it was a natural fit for him to heavily feature the Church of Ireland Bishop the Right Rev Dr John Colton and Bishop Emeritus Most Reverend John Buckley in his ordination ceremony.

A couple has taken a legal challenge over a coroner's refusal to await the report of an external review into the care of their 19-year-old daughter at Sligo University Hospital before resuming an inquest into her death.

Maria Bailey (43) is a first-time TD, who was elected on the seventh count in 2016 as one of three Fine Gael TDs in the Dun Laoghaire constituency.

Angela McGrath/Butler has been located safe and well.

Six years after the Boston Marathon bomb attack, three Irish athletes recall the events of that shocking day, and how out of that darkness, the city, its people, and its marathon came back stronger

They came to disrobe the emperor. They wanted to see the whites of his eyes, how he would manage under their steely gaze.

Ireland’s belle of British broadcasting Angela Scanlon is taking a fresh tack to revel in the projects she is currently working on, says Esther McCarthy.

An Irish teenager with the ‘Wright stuff’ has signed for Aston Villa.

The family of a Mayo man, who died when swimming in the Canadian Rockies, is preparing to bring his remains home.

The family of a Mayo man, who died when swimming in the Canadian Rockies, are preparing to bring his remains home.

Sergio Garcia and wife Angela named their infant daughter Azalea, after the 13th hole at Augusta National, where he made a career-changing par en route to his dramatic Masters victory in a sudden-death playoff in 2017. Now, that same hole, one of golf’s greatest risk-reward decisions, is at the centre of golf’s referendum on the distance debate.

China’s Haotong Li was the shock leader at a late stage of Thursday’s first round at Augusta National until eventually a few shots slipped away.

A nanny goat called Daisy has given birth to twin “geeps” — goat/sheep hybrids — after a week-long dalliance with a Cheviot ram on a Co Mayo farm.

We drink too much, we don’t talk about our feelings enough; the importance of mental health is still a nascent issue in our public consciousness, writes Louise O’Neill

Masters champion Sergio Garcia held the most unusual press conference of his career today as his wife Angela prepared to give birth to the couple's first child.

It was claimed the car which veered across the road and ploughed into Ms Kenneally’s car did so after a psychiatric patient who was a front seat passenger allegedly grabbed the wheel of the car, being driven by his sister.

The driver of a car which crashed into a teacher’s car killing her parents screamed and blacked out when her passenger, a psychiatric patient, allegedly grabbed her steering wheel, the High Court heard today.

Latest: Dolores O'Riordan will be laid to rest on Tuesday in her native Limerick.

Hortazelda Stadium in Madrid was an unlikely microcosm of the camogie world in 2017.

Founder of the hugely successful Mercy Recycling Campaign, Denis O’Donovan, has been named as December’s ‘Cork Person of the Month’ winner.

World markets spluttered, irked by the failure of German coalition talks which sent the euro and the price of oil lower.

Tournament host Sergio Garcia dedicated victory in the Andalucia Valderrama Masters to wife Angela and unborn child after claiming a sixth victory on home soil.

The parents of a 26-year-old Irishman who is presumed dead after disappearing in the waters of a river in Canada are enduring every family’s worst nightmare, a memorial service has been told.

BGE Theatre, Dublin

The dying wish of Angela’s Ashes author Frank McCourt has finally been granted as his family scattered his ashes in Limerick to coincide with the eighth anniversary of his passing.

The family of a US teenager who was found dead in the bath believe she was electrocuted while charging her mobile phone.

A garda with a “string of commendations”, who was convicted of assaulting two women in a row about a lift in a car, has been given a six-month suspended sentence.

Our next-door neighbour is in the biggest mess it has been in peacetime... Fergus Finlay says you couldn’t make it up.

The myhorridparent.com website is a forum for people to share their stories of abusive mothers and fathers, says Áilín Quiinlan

After taking a chance, a West Cork teenager takes on the world at a top hairdressing competition today, but Ciarán O’Sullivan has not forgotten his roots, writes Louise McCarthy.

A bag of grain — because he always produced “top quality grain” — and a copy of The Farmers Weekly — because no week was complete without it, were placed on the altar for the funeral Mass of Anthony O’Mahony, 74, the farmer who died in an incident involving a teleporter (truck-mounted lift) while on his way to check on his spring wheat at his lands in Rattoo south of the village last Tuesday.

Finbar Wright celebrates his 60th birthday and 27 years of success in the National Concert Hall on April 30.

The confession prompted an outcry of applause for the show favourite.