Emily and Jack continued to be the most popular names given to babies born last year, while Fiadh and Hannah broke into the top five girl's names for the first time.

A 90-year-old pensioner woman was forced to endure more than 48 hours of pain on a trolley and chair during the worst ever period of overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick.

Mid-October brought with it the start of the 2019/20 UAE racing season and consequently the return of Cork jockey Tadhg O’Shea to Dubai after a five-month hiatus in his homeland.

The Kilfinane-native follows Paul Browne in stepping away from the Limerick panel.

OUR fascination with interiors inspiration (in print, online and of course in the likes of social media sites like Pinterest and Instagram) is not going anywhere any time soon.

A new initiative honours teachers who have inspired their pupils, says Rowena Walsh.

An inquest into the death a girl from Co Limerick - who died following a surgical procedure at University Hospital Limerick last year - is happening today.

Born on October 16, 1913, Nancy Stewart (nee Bird) from Clonard is older than the State and still lives mostly independently in her own home with the help of family who stay with her.

Stephen Murphy believes he is getting the runaround.

Raiders ransacked her home and made away with her pension money.

John O’Connor is the owner of the Kenmare Bookshop, located in Shelbourne St, Kenmare, Co Kerry. It sells a range of new books.

After the historic Open win, the mammoth celebrations.

Cork manager Keith Ricken was thrilled with Cork’s performance as they won the Munster U20 final by beating Kerry 3-16 to 0-12.

Mark Cagney is to leave Ireland AM after almost 20 years at the helm of the popular breakfast show, Virgin Media Television has confirmed.

A Limerick man who was released on a day pass from a psychiatric unit and suffered life changing injuries when he fell from a multi-storey car park has settled his High Court action against the HSE for €7.25m.

A man who is a full-time carer for his younger brother has made an emotional appeal for a place in residential care for his sibling.

Majella Moynihan told her story this week and joins the likes of Ann Lovett, Joanne Hayes, and Eileen Flynn as women who were failed by the State, writes Dan Buckley

The country's only dedicated service for supporting children through the grief of losing a parent through death or parental separation has called on the government to fully fund its services as it has seen demand triple.

"It's very restful, it's like mindfulness on toes"

Irish Mammies fixing climate change? As if they hadn’t ENOUGH to be doing.

A doctor who sought help from a support programme for health professionals with mental health or addiction issues had not slept for 10 days, was not eating, and felt suicidal.

Nuns who ran the Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork should be questioned under caution by gardaí, a woman who gave birth to an infant there nearly 50 years ago has said.

Limerick woman, Ann O'Gorman, who had a little girl called Evelyn at Bessborough when she was just 17 years old, says that gardaí need to intervene in order to question members of the religious order who are still alive.

The Tralee Sports Complex was the hottest ticket in the country Saturday night. The Garvey’s Tralee Warriors were taking on basketball’s Super league leaders Templeogue in front of a raucous and partisan home support. Around 1,200 people packed the venue in a throwback to the great days of Irish basketball in the 80’s. The top of the table clash was all-ticket and sold out within a couple of days.

Irish coach Graham Shaw rang the changes as they drew their first game since the World Cup - a scoreless tie against Chile.

The memorial event also served to highlight the simmering sense of injustice felt by many, writes Noel Baker.

Attendance estimated at over 4,500 at Millstreet showcase of Ireland’s pedigree dairy breeding and trade exhibition

The widow of murdered detective Jerry McCabe has still not got over his horrific death 22 years later and says she misses him every day.

Thank goodness for September Sundays. Even though the hurling championship, in its new compressed, more efficient form, no longer involves a September day out, we still have camogie. 

Pop on the kettle, it's your lunchtime bulletin.

You'll notice it as you go into the big clothes shops from now on: signs done in blackboard chalk-style, and a smell of thousands of sensible shoes, which are Fabrique en Vietnam or Laos or Myanmar. (Wherever labour laws are most lax).

For Ann Dunlea, the night times are the hardest — replaying over and over the nightmare of what happened to her daughter, Olivia, at the hands of murderer Darren Murphy.

A mother has offered her house as collateral in a desperate bid to raise €100,000 to sponsor her daughter’s life-saving operation in Spain

ONE of the joys of a south-facing home is having all your best, ‘good’ rooms up the front, bathed in sunlight.

Some “very cutting” things have been said about Dermot Bannon online but he has learned to rise about them.

A Co Limerick community is "numb and deeply saddened" at the sudden death of a teenage girl from the area.

The field, the plaster face of the Virgin Mary, the labouring, dying 15-year-old, the dead baby…

A teenage boy who stole the nation's hearts after appearing on 'Room to Improve' has sadly passed away.

‘Who knows where the thread is going to unravel?’ asks O’Reilly

Can we name any medical/social scandal that has affected only the male gender?