Gardaí have almost completed their investigation into the murder of a Cork toddler earlier this summer and are putting together a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Undisputed lightweight world champion Katie Taylor has described her dad and former coach Pete Taylor as her hero and has revealed that she wants another shot at Belgium’s Delfine Persoon.

Unified lightweight champion Katie Taylor has described her dad and former coach Pete Taylor as her hero and told CNN she wants another shot at Belgium's Delfine Persoon.

Shane Lowry said the feeling of winning The Open “hasn’t sunk in yet” as he was welcomed home to County Offaly.

No man is an island, not even in a non-team sport like golf and while Shane Lowry is not one to use “we” when referring to his achievements in the style of many of his counterparts in golf’s elite, the Irishman is not afraid to give credit where it is due.

It’s not often golf takes precedence over Gaelic games for me but this was an exception — and oh what an exception.

Two-year-old Santina Cawley was murdered on July 5 in Cork city.

Heartbroken Bridget O'Donoghue has described the moment she was told by doctors at Cork University Hospital that little Santina Cawley had passed away.

The child's father, Michael, found her lying unconscious having suffered multiple bone fractures, cuts and bruises in the Elderwood Park complex off Boreenmanna Road.

The two-year-old will be laid to rest this afternoon in St Catherine's cemetery in Kilcully after the service at the North Cathedral in Cork.

A woman in her thirties has been arrested in connection with the murder of two-year-old Santina Cawley

There’s no tent to pitch, no sleeping bag to unfurl, no stove to work out. Embrace the luxury side of camping, from Ardmore to Dromquinna, with Ciara McDonnell’s pick of the best places to glamp

All roads lead to Cork for a host of inspiring gardening events this week. An acclaimed documentary that reveals how one of the world's most revolutionary landscape designers upends our conventional notions of nature, public space and beauty, will be screened in Nano Nagle Place, Cork, next Saturday, June 29, 2pm-5pm, admission free (www.eventbrite.ie)

Bray Councillor Joe Behan said there's a desire to honour Katie's achievements, but that her family may not be keen on a statue.

When the Soviet writer Solzhenitsyn was in the gulag, he used to sew bread rations into his mattress, so that if the guards withheld his food, he wouldn’t die.

There are some startling truths out there.

Josh Cullen is a London-born midfielder and West Ham United employee and he has just been called up to the senior Ireland senior set-up for the first time as a late addition to Mick McCarthy’s squad.

Des O'Driscoll shares the latest from the entertainment world.

A man with a learning disability who contracted Hepatitis B from a dirty needle while gardening died due to the virus twenty years later.

Rosaline O’Brien, from Cappamore, Co Limerick, knew nothing about cancer trials until she was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2013.

Millions of eyeballs will focus on a small rectangle in Cardiff tonight, with three of the four major world heavyweight titles on the line. Both fighters are undefeated, both are heroes in their own countries.

The Offaly banter is nothing new to Brendan Kealy — he’s been hearing it for years at this stage.

Not quite a pot of gold, but Marty Morrissey was clearly over the rainbow when he managed to improve his steps on Dancing with the Stars’ movie-themed night.

Mrs Browns Boys, Bridget & Eamon, and Baz and Nancy going to see the Pope are some of the highlights on RTÉ for the Christmas period.

Helen O’Callaghan talks to Jennifer Zamparelli about how baby number two will fit in to the 2fm presenter’s hectic life

While men sentenced to death were more likely to be executed, Ian O’Donnell finds that women who found their sentences commuted were often sent to another institution such as a convent after they had served time in prison.

Thomas Greehy was just 19 when he died in the Civil War trying to remove guns from an IRA arms dump in Co Waterford.

There are things that a book can do for you that defy adequate explanation. It is a something deeply personal, a connection made with the words that lingers long after the book is closed and laid down. 

A bit different to last week's show.

It is ironic that, on the day the Irish Hunger Memorial, which faces the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, reopened, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, introduced legislation sponsored by two Republican senators, which will “... favour applicants who can speak English, financially support themselves and their families, and demonstrate skills that will contribute to our economy.”

Pride shone through the clouds and the rain for Cork’s LGBT community as they remembered a recently departed activist and advocate.

Food giant Dairygold may be a big cheese in North Cork but the company has run foul of locals in one town, due to a lingering bad smell its plant is producing.

Katie Taylor was boxing clever outside the ring last year as accumulated profits at her firm passed the €1.4m mark. 

* Danny Brown and The Monster Toothbrush by Brianóg Brady Dawson (O’Brien, €6.99)

CCTV footage revealed the final movements of Ronan Kennedy, aged three years and ten months, at the Quality Hotel in Youghal, Co Cork.

A woman has revealed how her baby boy "was just left to die" days after he was born in a mother-and-baby home in Co. Cork in 1961.

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Three brothers from Co Clare been awarded Garda Youth Awards after they gallantly defended their home and neighbours' properties from last winter's flooding.

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