The moment happened at the Colchester Zoo in England.

A video of a wonderful moment between a pregnant woman and orangutan is going viral.

Presenter of TV3’s Animal A&E and soon-to-be-broadcast Dog Tales, Andrea Hayes is married to David Torpey and they have one daughter, Brooke, aged 5. 

Through her acting and production work, Susan Sarandon is happy to help challenge the Hollywood patriarchy, writes Helen Barlow

A punk rock band becomes trapped in an isolated venue by a gang of neo-Nazis.

The next government has been warned to step up its plans to tackle the social housing crisis after one organisation claimed the current strategy was insufficient given the scale of the problem.

The Government could save €224m a year in the cost of caring for older people by improving home-based services and resourcing properly sheltered housing, a new study shows.

Here's what to watch on TV today.

Former All Black Zinzan Brooke has warned that France will aim to peak for their crunch World Cup pool match with Ireland next month.

Opening in Berlin in 1963, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (12A) pits CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) against the KGB’s Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) as Solo exfiltrates Gaby (Alicia Vikander) from East to West Berlin. 

The Sunday’s Well Rebels, Ireland’s only Mixed Ability Rugby team, travel to England next week to compete in the first Mixed Ability Rugby World Tournament (MARWT).

A young bride received a deeply touching wedding gift from her mother when she unwrapped a 20-year-old letter on her wedding day.

Check our our guide to the best of tonight's TV.

Your spoiler-free guide to tonight's TV programmes.

Football, penguins, lego and more.

BILLED as a book that’ll appeal to Mean Girls fans, I was expecting good things from Weightless. 

The going was decidedly more firm than Cheltenham and the Cotswolds course will never present the challenge of newly-laid main drainage overlay, but the on-street battle for glory that is Youghal’s Donkey Derby had punters in East Cork smiling last night.

Clúid Housing has "warmly welcomed" today’s announcement of a trebling in capital funding for social housing in the Budget.

‘X Factor’ winner Sam Bailey has given birth to a baby girl.

'Coronation Street' star Brooke Vincent claims she and Niall Horan are just friends.

Check out the 18 brilliant young women making Irish soccer history with a UEFA Women's Under-19

Charlie Sheen is planning to have children with fiancee Scottine Rossi.

Brooke Vincent was involved in a bust-up in Manchester on Thursday night.

Cork City Council has revealed that it received 243 refusals to offers of housing last year.

Brooke Vincent is delighted her character has started behaving badly.

Here's our guide to the best TV to watch tonight.

Only five mortgage-to-rent arrangements to assist distressed borrowers have been completed by the country’s main banks since it was set up two and a half years ago.

Pregnant X Factor winner Sam Bailey has hit back at criticism that she has ruined her career by becoming pregnant.

The 2013 'X Factor' winner discovered she was expecting her third child after taking a pregnancy test in an ASDA supermarket and couldn't wait to tell her husband Craig.

Brooke Mueller reportedly allowed Charlie Sheen to spend time with his sons yesterday.

An ice cream business owner who kept a vulnerable man like a “slave” has been jailed for six-and-a-half years by a judge who said it was “staggering” this could happen in modern society.

An ice cream business owner who kept a vulnerable man like a “slave” has been jailed for six-and-a-half years by a judge who said it was “staggering” this could happen in modern society.

Charlie Sheen pretended he had married to give his ex-wife "a stroke".

Charlie Sheen claims he has got married.

Charlie Sheen won't be spending Christmas with any of his children.

Brooke Mueller is set to appear in court in Los Angeles today in relation to "inconsistencies" about her drug treatment.

Charlie Sheen has been granted visitation rights to his twin sons.

Charlie Sheen has wished death on two of his ex-girlfriends after claiming they tried to scam him out of money.

Hulk Hogan thought about taking his own life in 2007, after he began to realise his body couldn't cope with the same ring rigours it used to, his reality TV show 'Hogan Knows Best' reality show - co-starring his wife Linda, and children Brooke and Nick - was cancelled and his marriage was heading for divorce.

Charlie Sheen has avoided contempt of court charges.

Brooke Mueller is looking for a new home.

Brooke Mueller has agreed to have her sons tested for "fetal alcohol and drug syndrome".