One of the Grenfell fire investigators and other international experts have thrown their support behind calls by the Stardust fire families for fresh inquests into the deaths of their loved ones.

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.

An award of €900,000 was made yesterday to the family of a 42-year-old man fatally injured while training for a charity cycle in Kerry in aid of people with Down Syndrome.

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Antoinette Norris has acquired many skills in 18 years of caring for a child with profound disabilities, but lately she feels she’s added time travel to the list.

The widow of Paud O’Leary, who was killed by a hit-and-run driver, says the term imposed ‘doesn’t add up’ when compared to the devastation caused to her family, says Donal Hickey

A fundraising appeal has been launched to help with the repatriation costs of the remains of a young Irish boy who died in Australia last week.

The widow of a 42-year-old hit-and-run accident victim has told how she heard the news of his death after his body had been found a short distance from their home.

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NOT every house can boast a suite of tapestries given as a gift by the King of France to his future daughter-in-law, Marie-Antoinette.

Even though the catalogue is still in the course of preparation, the Irish Examiner can today offer a sneak preview of treasures from Bantry House to be sold by Edinburgh-based auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull on October 21.

BE IT a sunny or a dark day, the Dublin mountains offer majestic views that are attractive to tourists and locals alike. But the old, winding roads that snake up from the suburbia of Tallaght and Rathfarnham can bring you very quickly into dense forest and desolate and dangerous locations.

The family of a six-year-old Cork girl have postponed a potentially life-changing operation for her twice because they have not raised enough money to pay for it.

Dozens of parents who have children with cancer have joined forces to turn Ireland gold for a whole week.

Cold case detectives want to question two men who shared a taxi with a woman on the night a young mother was brutally murdered and dumped in the Dublin mountains.

Cold case detectives want to question two men who shared a taxi with a woman on the night a young mother was brutally murdered and dumped in the Dublin mountains.

Supporters of a Co Cork girl who needs €60,000 for a potentially life-changing operation in the US are planning to smash the world ‘rock the boat’ record as part of a fundraising effort for her.

The family of a 6-year-old girl has expressed its delight after a hospital in the US agreed to carry out what may be a life-changing operation.

The family of a six-year-old Co Cork girl is hoping she will shortly get the go-ahead to travel to the US for a life-changing operation.

Four Kerry children are spending their first Christmas without their father, who was killed in a hit and run accident close to his home on July 1.

The widow of a man who was killed in a hit-and-run incident almost four months ago has issued an emotional appeal for the driver to come forward.

A priest speaking yesterday for the distraught family of a hit-and-run accident victim appealed to the driver to come forward.

“You don’t volunteer for this kind of job — you do it when you have to,” said octogenarian Peter Riordan, Ireland’s National Carer of the Year.

Killimor’s grip on the All-Ireland senior club camogie championship is no more, as Drom/Inch dominated the Galwegians at MacDonagh Park in Nenagh to book a place in this year’s final against Oulart-the-Ballagh.

THE European Court of Human Rights has asked the state to respond to several questions over its handling of official investigations into the Stardust fire tragedy.

A man was remanded in custody in Britain today accused of murdering his two young children.

Businessman Jim Kennedy, who is accused of numerous counts of corrupt payments to politicians, was served with a book of evidence today and sent forward for trial before a judge and jury.

BUSINESSMAN Jim Kennedy, who was last week charged with numerous counts of corrupt payments to politicians, was remanded on continuing bail when he appeared at Cloverhill District Court.

Businessman Jim Kennedy, who is charged with making corrupt payments to politicians, has taken up bail.

FOUR former Fianna Fáil councillors and businessman Jim Kennedy are to face a criminal trial on charges of planning corruption related to the rezoning of lands in Carrickmines, Co Dublin, during the 1990s.

MEET the wonder mum who was pregnant for 25 years.

THE leader of a religious cult ordered a one-year-old boy to be starved to death because he did not say “Amen” before a meal.

OH, the petty bourgeoisie can be so damn... petty.

THE Frank Sinatra hit My Way will reverberate around a village church today as PJ Barry is laid to rest in a cowboy suit and US marshall’s badge.

The Co Derry couple whose children were temporarily taken into care in Portugal after allegations that they were drunk have denied that they consumed excess alcohol.

A FAMILY friend of Eamon and Antoinette McGuckin has strongly denied reports that the couple got so drunk that they were unable to look after their three young children during a holiday to Portugal.