Páirc Uí Chaoimh GAA stadium in Cork will have a full house of 45,000 for the Liam Miller benefit soccer match on September 25. The fixture is now sold out.

If communities want to retain local post offices, they must use the service, the Tánaiste has warned.

In 1997, Billy and Bridie Miller made the difficult decision to say goodbye to their 15-year-old son Liam, who left Ovens having caught the eye of football scouts across the Irish Sea.

He was remembered as a family man above all else. Remembered for his life off the pitch, rather than on it.

Before the Requiem Mass, a long, solemn hush settled in a packed St John the Baptist Church in Ovens, Cork, yesterday.

University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology have expressed sympathy to the family of a young microbiologist who died following a drowning accident in the Netherlands.

University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology have expressed sympathy to the family of a young microbiologist who died following a drowning accident in the Netherlands.

The mixed-race daughter of an Irish Traveller mother has told how she grew up believing her mother set fire to her as a tiny baby because she was born after an out-of-wedlock affair with a black British man.

Veteran Daffodil Day volunteers Mary Donoher and Bridie Parkinson from Mountmellick, Co Laois, are alway watching out for the first flower of spring.

Wayne Rooney opens up his life to the TV cameras for a major documentary, Rooney — The Man Behind The Goals, on BBC One on Monday.

In a world where vlogging is the new blogging and snapchat is the new vlogging, we know it can be hard to keep up.

In day four of our special report on rural Ireland we visit Ballydehob, Co. Cork.

A student in Galway has created an app designed to help anyone having suicidal thoughts or suffering mental health difficulties.

Tributes have been paid to one of the great characters of local politics in Kerry, former Fine Gael county councillor Danny Kissane, who has died at the age of 89.

Northern Ireland’s highest ranking police officer has been summoned to court to explain why a crucial report on the murder of a GAA official almost 18 years ago has been withheld from an inquest.

A grieving man whose wife walked in front of a train the day after doctors turned her away from a psychiatric unit yesterday hit out at the Government’s anti-suicide campaign.

"The past is never dead," wrote William Faulkner. "It’s not even past." Between Trees and Water, a new show by Cork theatre company, Painted Bird, is convinced of this stubborn relevance of the past to the present.

In 1958, Michael Freer visited Dublin and met a woman called Bridie Fortune. 56 years later, he wants to find her again.

FROM adoption as a toddler to elevation to the office of Tánaiste at the age most people retire, Joan Burton’s life has been shaped by a remarkable ability to overcome the odds.

FOR OUR May Slow Food East Cork event we returned to Sage Restaurant in Midleton to celebrate the local food.

Ahoy Daddy! A little girl welcomed her father home from sea yesterday as the State’s newest Naval Service patrol vessel opened to the public for the first time.

I DON’T know when I had cabbage like it. The right amount of firmness, so tasty it must have been grown on volcanic soil fertilised by contented, opinionated cattle and cooked in water from one of those ads where the water surges free off a mountain that had trapped it since antiquity.

FIVE years ago, Mairead Devlin and her friend, Mary O’Driscoll, formed a small theatre company to perform plays in nursing and care homes, and to encourage the residents to get involved.

Theatre: Desolate Heaven

Everyman, Cork

As a teenager, Maura was a servant in a big house.

The love affair started well over 20 years ago, when Eamonn Langton, owner of Langton’s Hotel in Kilkenny, was on one of his regular trips to the British capital.

Former Senator Tom Fitzgerald has passed away at the age of 74.

DO you ever wish you had someone to go to see the latest film with, or even meet for a chat over coffee? Then why not become a cultural companion?

I was very glad to hear the Taoiseach’s apology to the women who had the misfortune to find themselves in a Magdalene Laundries. It was the right thing to do and long overdue.

A detective shot dead during a credit union robbery in Louth was a virtuous man who was a perfect role model for the rest of society, his state funeral heard today.

Locnamon Bridie, trained by Paul Hennessy for Bill Chawke, came out on top in a thrilling finish to the final of the Christmas Oaks at Shelbourne Park on Saturday night.

Wife killer Dermot McArdle’s hopes of an early jail release have been dealt a blow after court officials slammed his compensation payments.

It literally was a dog’s life for this hound, who has just been saved from spending another bitter winter living on the streets.

A woman clung desperately to save her drowning father before he was torn from her grasp by a swollen river.

Wife killer Dermot McArdle has started to pay back more than €200,000 in court costs and compensation to his sons and ex in-laws — at just €50 a month.

There were global family ties at a weekend gathering where an extended clan celebrated the anniversary of their shared ancestors’ wedding almost 150 years earlier.

Jimmy Woulfe and Juno McEnroe profile the new secretary general at the Department of Finance

The political world has expressed its sympathies to Michael Noonan following the death of the finance minister’s wife, Florence.

After a Dublin social welfare office ‘banned’ visitors wearing PJs, Jonathan deBurca Butler took to the streets in his.