Marvel illustrator Will Sliney is one of many well-known people who has lent his talents to anew fundraising initiative for CUH children’s unit. Marjorie Brennan meets the real-life heroes of the unit

Doulas are women who provide emotional and domestic support to expectant and new mums, like a hired friend, says Helen O’Callaghan.

So that’s Wednesday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Munster coach Johann van Graan praised the strength and depth of his squad after they came from behind to oust Benetton Rugby in Treviso on Friday night.

Dublin may have had 30,000 runners pounding its streets in the women’s mini marathon but all attention went Lee-side.

Former England midfielder Ray Wilkins has died, his former club Chelsea have announced.

Hands up Riverdale fans!

4321 is immensely readable, at times compelling, sometimes saggy tale, says Noel Baker.

As well as appearing on Dragon’s Den on RTÉ One, Chanelle McCoy’s business interest runs Chanelle Medical, a pharmaceutical company with 350 employees. The 40-year-old grew up in Loughrea, Co Galway, and has two children with her husband, former jockey AP McCoy.

A four-month-old baby who was snatched from his mother’s arms by the family dog and savaged died as the result of an accident, an inquest in England concluded.

Dog grabbed baby from mother's arms and savaged him to death, inquest told

The death of a four-month-old baby in England who was mauled by his policewoman aunt's dog is not being treated as a criminal investigation.

Irish TV vet Noel Fitzpatrick tells Keeley Bolger animals should be given the same options in surgical care as afforded humans

Northern Ireland fans are to mark the memory of tragic Robert "Archie" Rainey during the Euro 2016 game against Germany.

1. The 5 Misfits by Beatrice Alemagna (Frances Lincoln, €16.70 HB)

The founder of O’Leary Insurance Group, owner of formidable racehorse Florida Pearl, and former Ireland rugby international Archie O’Leary has passed away.

An asylum seeker, who was at the centre of controversy surrounding access to third-level education, has described how being in university is a “dream come true”.

LUCKY is a word that crops up over and over when Barbara Dickson talks about her life. 

Peter Merrigan shows us around his Porsche 911Turbo.

Every award that comes the way of CJ Stander counts on his CV. Take seven Man of the Match gongs last season and another in Saturday’s opening Guinness Pro12 clash with Benetton Treviso as just some of the recent entries for the South African back-rower.

ENGLAND: A fox cub has undergone a delicate procedure to remove a plastic tub which became stuck round its neck in a seaside town.

The gutsy seven-year-old Ravished bagged the €40,000 McSweeney Arms Hotel Killarney National for Mouse Morris, Gigginstown House Stud and Bryan Cooper in Killarney last night.

On His Own claimed a well-deserved return to winning ways with an emphatic success in the Grade 3 Imperial Call Chase yesterday afternoon at Cork.

Kym Marsh wants to "play other parts".

AP McCoy’s announcement that he would be retiring at the end of the season didn’t come as a surprise to me because we are good friends.

Munster captain Peter O’Mahony has praised his side’s strength in reserve after the province shut down Saracens with a second-half powerplay.

There was a nice little documentary on the radio here a couple of weeks ago which sought to debunk the corporate creation myths of the most successful entrepreneurs who rose up to dominate our daily lives.

Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham and Antonio Banderas flex their muscles in The Expendables 3, and a talented table footballer learns to play the beautiful game for real in the computer-animated fantasy The Unbeatables.

What, when you know he has a terminal illness, do you tell your eight-year-old son when he asks if he is going to die?

A cat in Limerick was reunited with its delighted owners TWO WEEKS after going missing - but how it turned up 20km away is a mystery.

Identical twins George and Isaac Naughton who have a terminal illness have a major surprise in store when they celebrate their fourth today.

Will Arnett has filed for divorce from his estranged wife Amy Poehler.

Meet the queens of the Stone Age, who’ve proved they just don’t build them like they used to anymore.

One day down, three to go. The Cheltenham Festival is, and always has been, a marathon rather than a sprint but the pace of life at the Prestbury Park racecourse in the depths of the Cotswolds never ceases to amaze no matter how many the renewals.

The Liar’s Daughter

Tony McCoy has one booked ride at Southwell today as he sets out on the road to what could be another 1,000 winners to add to the record haul of 4,000 he reached at Towcester with a trademark ride on Mountain Tunes.

Tony McCoy produced the kind of swashbuckling ride for which he has become so famed as he secured his 4,000th winner over jumps at Towcester yesterday.

Larry Lamb has blasted 'EastEnders' as a "sweatshop".

TV star Nicholas Lyndhurst has hit out at the current state of TV, comparing “cruel” Britain’s Got Talent to the psychiatric hospital Bedlam.

An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation centre, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived.

Amy Poehler has moved on from Will Arnett.