A 12-year-old schoolboy, who will be scarred for life after falling while attending a creche nine years ago, has been awarded €45,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

Tyrone’s Kris Meeke and his Killarney co-driver Paul Nagle have ended weeks of speculation after they confirmed they are to remain with Citroen for the next three seasons.

5 Seconds of Summer's Michael Clifford is on crutches after a fall on stage.

England head coach Stuart Lancaster has admitted to shedding tears over the selection of his 31-man World Cup squad.

Vincent O’Donovan is a world champion from Cork city. At the World Drug Free Powerlifting Federation World Championships in Chisinau, Moldova last November, he retained his world junior title and set a series of world and European records. He is studying radiography.

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The glamour model is "gutted" after becoming the second housemate to be voted out despite having a "very intense" time on the Channel 5 reality show.

Veteran R’n’B star Alexander O’Neal has left the Big Brother house, Channel 5 said.

Irish rugby legends have paid tribute to the one considered the greatest of them all as they joined friends and family of the late Jack Kyle at a special thanksgiving service.

Bono and Miriam O’Callaghan were among those who had soft toys photographed for an exhibition, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger feels it makes no sense for the Barclays Premier League season to kick off this weekend, with players still fatigued from the World Cup.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger feels it makes no sense for the Barclays Premier League season to kick off this weekend, with players still fatigued from the World Cup.

Arsenal have signed full-back Calum Chambers from Southampton for an undisclosed fee, the London club have announced.

Arsenal have signed full-back Calum Chambers from Southampton for an undisclosed fee, the London club have announced.

Tears flowed in the Late Late Show studio last night after two families with members long cast to far corners of the globe were reunited for Christmas.

Cian Healy will be fit and raring to go toe-to-toe when Leinster meet a Northampton pack scrum coach Greg Feek ranks with the very best in Europe.

The family of a young boy who underwent pioneering surgery to improve his hearing have called on the Government to put sign language on the primary school curriculum.

Three coffins; three hearses outside the church in the village of Crooke; three men who loved boats and fishing from the time they could walk.

The people of Passage East have always gone to sea, but yesterday all they could do was think about the boat that failed to come home.

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The family of a young boy buried in a sand dune for over 10 minutes are arranging to meet the four men who saved the 10-year-old’s life.

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Experts at an American clinic have confirmed that a three-year-old boy has shown the first signs of being able to hear since undergoing a pioneering bionic ear implant.

Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks have vowed to fight the phone-hacking charges imposed on them by the UK's the Crown Prosecution Service.

A three-year-old deaf boy who underwent a pioneering operation to implant a bionic ear has started a potentially life-changing course in the US that will teach him the meanings of different sounds.

The family of the first Irish child to get a bionic ear are preparing to take him to a leading US clinic for specialist aftercare.

“He turned when he heard the sound of heavy machinery on the streets of Manchester and that was a high for us.”

A three-year-old boy from Cork heard his brothers and parents yesterday for the first time.

After three years of silence, this little Cork boy finally experienced something most of us take for granted — the ability to hear his parents and brothers.

A three-year-old boy from Cork will today hear for the first time.

The parents of a young child have asked for prayers that the switch-on of his “bionic ear” will prove successful.

A father of a three-year-old deaf boy yesterday spoke of his family’s disappointment as the activation of his son’s bionic ear has been postponed.

It was a right hooley in Ballyhooly as the country’s first “bionic ear” patient returned home armed with an award for bravery.

The parents of the first deaf Irish toddler to get a pioneering ‘bionic ear’ implant described themselves as “elated and exhausted” last night after surgeons told them the seven-hour operation “couldn’t have gone better”.

A toddler from Co Cork diagnosed as being profoundly deaf will undergo a “bionic ear” operation in Britain tomorrow, becoming the first Irish person to have the revolutionary surgery.

Vita Cortex workers are not entitled to get any kind of “top-up” from the company which employed them on statutory redundancy paid by the Government, the Department of Social Protection has said.

The father of a three-year-old boy, set to undergo pioneering “bionic ear” surgery to cure deafness, has been overwhelmed by the generosity of Vita Cortex workers who diverted cash raised for them to the child’s fund.

The greatest gift three-year-old Donnacha Geary will get is to know one day his twin brother will be able to hear him say he loves him.

CALUM BEST has angered organisers of a fashion event by demanding a colossal €5,500 fee — three times more than girlfriend Georgia Salpa’s.

Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Regan has condemned “the inflammatory and irresponsible behaviour” in Celtic’s 1-0 win over Rangers in last night’s Scottish Cup fifth-round replay at Celtic Park, and confirmed an investigation has been launched into all incidents.