A young mother of four who died after accidentally overdosing on painkillers had changed a handwritten prescription from her GP to secure a larger quantity of one of her regular medications.

A major search took place in Co Clare today for a woman not seen since Saturday night.

Even in death, Emma Mhic Mhathúna would not be silenced.

A nine-year-old Kerry boy who suffered brain damage at birth has settled his High Court action for €15m.

The sister of a woman cyclist who died in a traffic accident in Co Kerry last week is demanding the road authorities carry out urgent improvements to a notorious stretch of a bypass road.

PJ Nolan has spent at least two decades spreading snooker’s gospel.

A collision yesterday on the main Dublin-Cork route was the third fatal incident in the last three years to involve an elderly motorist driving the wrong way on motorways in Cork.

Helen O’Callaghan finds out about a very caring 13-year-old young man who cares diligently for his older sister.

Two Irish teachers have been catapulted to celebrity status in India thanks to a bizarre chain of events involving the Donegal football team and an honourable rickshaw driver.

A motorist has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving following a crash which killed a popular horse trader.

Eight-year-old girl Chrissy Turner, from Utah, is thought to be one of the youngest people in the world to be diagnosed with breast cancer.

With Halloween fast approaching, Michelle Murphy found herself mulling over the idea of spirits and the afterlife, a concept she has mixed feelings about. So she met up with two psychics to find out, for once and for all, if some people do have psychic powers?

A woman in her 60s has gone missing from her home in Dublin.

Liverpool have another chance to chase a place in next season’s Champions League as they begin their UEFA Europa League campaign.

Kelly O’Brien spoke to five people working abroad

The Nama board is considering offering bonuses to property developers that are working with the agency.

Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, a favourite of socialites and Hollywood stars, has died.

THERE are pubs and bars, and then there are locals — and Cobh’s Roaring Donkey is all three, under the one hat and roof.

Protesters have warned they will take to the streets for as long as it takes to get a new school built.

Events have happened recently that makes me outraged and makes me want to speak out about it and to wonder what life is really all about.

The Taoiseach has accepted the removal of discretionary medical cards is "an issue" of concern to parents of sick and vulnerable children and has asked the HSE to take a more humane approach when examining cases.

Ant and Dec continue the latest series of their fun-packed live family entertainment show. Featuring the Muppets, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson and Christine Bleakley.

The family of a young Limerick woman who came back from ‘locked-in’ syndrome having caught a serious infection from cleaning parrot cages have admitted they are stunned at her recovery.

Glanmire’s Hayley Lenihan and her brother Dylan will be busy this weekend - busy making both their parents proud

Organisers of a US-themed child beauty pageant have signalled their intention to stage up to four more in Ireland next year — despite suffering a backlash from a number of angry parents just hours before their first-ever Irish event at the weekend.

Patricia Ingle, the young Limerick woman who has confounded medical experts with her recovery from a ‘locked in’ state after contracting a rare illness from a parrot cage, has begun work on writing her story.

THINK of all the phrases you never want to hear, and chances are this one will be right at the top of your list: “I’ve done all I can, but I don’t think she will survive.”

Wake up and smell the roses at this Victorian home just a mile from Waterford City centre, writes Tommy Barker.

A coroner in the suicide of a prominent businessman has said someone should “shout stop” to financial institutions whom he said “can push a person over the edge” in the way they pursue debts.

As events, and my 12-year-old girl would have it, I’ve just spent back-to-back Saturdays in the Parochial Hall on Cork city’s northside.

As the Cannes Film Festival opens, Irish photographer John Minihan retraces the highlights of a career spent capturing some of Hollywood’s biggest names, and his Oscar party trip this year

A mother whose daughter has epilepsy has had to resort to her mobile phone to record seizures, because the hospital units where she could be monitored are closed due to a of lack of funds to staff them.

Already down in the opinion polls, Barack Obama is also losing badly to Republican rival Mitt Romney in the fundraising stakes. Daniel Klaidman explores the US president’s cash crunch

Gardaí launched a murder inquiry yesterday, days after a pensioner was found dead on his bathroom floor.

MICHAEL Kiely was seven years old when a tractor rolled over him, breaking his pelvis, injuring his bladder and damaging his kidneys.

FROM kitchen utensils to bedroom toys, direct sales parties have practically become part of the furniture in living rooms across the land down through the years.

RESIDENTS at a Limerick nursing home, 14 of whom have acquired brain injuries, yesterday held an exhibition of their art projects.

A 22-YEAR-old woman left severely disabled by a rare brain disease she contracted while working in a pet shop will go home tomorrow, having spent almost three years in hospital.

THE US Marine Corps last night honoured screen legend Maureen O’Hara for one of her great war-time movie roles, which it says helped boost recruitment during the Second World War.