IT’S the morning after Aoibheann McCaul’s first appearance on RTÉ 2’s mockumentary Hardy Bucks.

Kieran McCarthy can be forgiven for feeling a little jaded on the start line for next month’s Dublin City Marathon.

Adding a new twist to gift-giving this Christmas, Dublin start-up Love & Robots is using hi-tech 3D printing to offer customisable jewellery, phone covers, coasters, and clocks.

Feeding the homeless population of Ireland is a daunting task, but it’s all in a day’s work for social entrepreneur Iseult Ward who has just been named as one of Time magazine’s ‘Next Generation Leaders’.

A mother convinced her son was unwell despite reassurances from a consultant that he was okay, trusted her instinct and brought him to hospital where, just hours later, he was diagnosed with cancer.

The father of a little boy who lost his battle against cancer is trying to get men to take selfies with make-up on to raise awareness and funds for a charity that helped his family in their hour of need.

A boy who had the “unenviable title of the sickest child in Ireland” as he fought leukaemia has won a ‘Child of Courage’ award.

Garda sources don’t yet know if the shots fired at disgraced developer and former Fianna Fáil councillor Ger Killally were an attempted robbery, a warning to pay up money he may have owed, or “something even worse”.

A disgraced developer and former general election running mate of Brian Cowen fled from a gunman with his father and two young children in Co Offaly yesterday.

PRIOR to 2004, such circusry skills as trapeze and aerial silk didn’t have much of a profile in Ireland.

It’s a wrench when your child starts school, the flip of what you felt as an infant. It’s a beginning and an ending, says Sue Leonard

Katie Taylor is doing more than inspiring Ireland — she is also impressing the leader of Britain.

ACTRESS Aoibheann McCaul, of Fair City, says her mum would kill her if she went out with a guy like her on-screen boyfriend, bad boy Decco Bishop.

A SHANNON man is to cycle across the country throughout the night to make the starting line for this year’s Dublin City Marathon to run 26 miles.

The Dalai Lama has branded the killing of young policeman Ronan Kerr in the North a senseless act.

A WEXFORD-MAN delivered his baby on the hard shoulder of the N11 on Monday night.

Sean and Sarah have been revealed as the most popular baby names in Ireland last year.

Lord of the Dance Michael Flatley today married his leading lady, Niamh O'Brien.

HAIRDRESSER Donna Black was sharpening her scissors last night, ahead of the social wedding of the year today.

FORMER Taoiseach Albert Reynolds along with Health Minister Mary Harney, JP McManus, John Magnier and members of the Chieftains are expected to be among 250 guests attending tomorrow’s wedding of Michael Flatley to Niamh O’Brien.

PAULINE O’REILLY’S seven adopted children have never heard their mother curse or shout or say anything bad about anyone.

IRISH High Jump sensation Adrian O’Dwyer from Kilkenny yesterday became the 13th Irish athlete to achieve the Olympic A standard when he set an Irish record of 2.30m at a meeting in Algiers.