The Mother and Baby Homes Commission says it is legally prohibited from informing any surviving family members of the children they have found burial locations for.

The sister of a baby boy who died in Bessborough only found out that he was buried in a former famine grave via the Commission's burials report.

A highly-respected photographer who chronicled life and times in the towns, villages, and islands of West Cork over a number of decades has died.

RTÉ’s latest series of Home Rescue sees a Cork mum with eight sons — all with names beginning with the letter K — declutter her home. Ailin Quinlan meets the family.

Don’t worry, the window is not in danger of breaking or collapsing and the Gardaí are investigating.

The festival, which runs from November 9-18, will showcase Irish and international films with a focus on current global issues.

Thomas Mackle is bidding to become the first player to win four Hurley’s of Midleton King of the Roads titles in succession this weekend at Ballincurrig.

The cost of dental treatment abroad can come in much cheaper — but it’s important to do your research first, writes Áilin Quinlan.

Joe McNamee visits the Bay Tree Bistro in Waterford

Joe McNamee shares the latest foodie news

The newly-ordained Bishop of Ossory has weighed into the debate on abortion on his first day in office, describing as “paradoxical and in some ways the ultimate delusion” the proposal to “extinguish” the right to life of a child.

“I’m heartbroken,” Carmel Kidney said, standing outside Bandon courthouse, not far from where her son, Alan, was found dead after a drugs overdose. “As a mother, I am devastated. I have three funerals to pay for.”

It’s not everyone that has the President of Ireland attend their funeral, but Dr Maurice Hayes, who passed away at the age of 90 a couple of days before Christmas, lived enough for several men.

A fund has been launched to help the parents of an Irish man, who went missing almost eight months ago on a US hiking route, mount a massive search for him.

When Myer Bookman was born in Hibernian Buildings on Albert Road in 1891, to a Jewish family from Russia, he could hardly have dreamt how his birth could still be having repercussions in European identity politics more than a century later.

Carmel offers plenty of space close to the city and will receive plenty of  attention for urban dwellers looking for that rural feel, says Tommy Barker

Carmel Murray has had a wanderlust since her 20s, culminating in solo trips to India for dental work. But, as she tells Margaret Jennings, there’s more to her travels than that.

Derry Cotter was a lecturer in UCC for 35 years. His first stage play, The Inheritance, opens tonight in the Cork Arts Theatre, and will also be performed by the UCC Players in Ardmore, Co Waterford on Friday, May 26 . Cotter was born in a pub in the North Main Street, Cork, which his parents used to run for Murphy’s Brewery. He is married to Carmel, and they have four children.

The Naughton Foundation, which makes donations to education in engineering, science and technology has received €20.4m from one of the firms in Martin Naughton’s Glen Dimplex group.

There were equine stars a-plenty at last Sunday’s Clonmel Show, from the Garda mounted unit (on show alongside the armed response unit and the sniffer dogs), to the donkey derby, and Grand Prix showjumping (won by rider Micheal Pender).

Minister has her supporters but concedes she will face a battle for the fourth seat in Cork North Central, writes Catherine Shanahan

Spring is just around the corner and Esther N McCarthy is here to show you the way to bright and cheerful buys for the home — at all price points.

THE story of a child going missing will resonate with many people from newspaper headlines if not actually from the direct experience of living with someone who has disappeared.

The family of a seriously ill woman, stranded in Bosnia because no intensive care bed could be found for her here, have spoken of their relief at getting her home.

A seriously ill grandmother who was rushed to hospital during a pilgrimage to Medjugorje has been stranded because there is no bed for her here.

A swimming instructor has become the first person to complete the gruelling open water swim from Ballycotton to Ardmore on the south east coast.

An outpouring of condolences followed the news yesterday of the death of Derry and Ballinderry footballer Aaron Devlin.

Boxers represent Ireland’s best hope of medals at the European Games which began in Baku last night.

Some couples agree early on how many children they’d like but many mums anguish over whether to have another. How do you know when you have enough children, asks Andrea Mara.

Liz Dunphy looks at addiction and prescription tranquilisers — and talks to the practitioners who are re-humanising the treatment of emotional distress — without pharmaceutical intervention.

It can be hard to make an impact with a first novel, but Kate Hamer’s powerful thriller will certainly cement her name in the literature world.

Heavy overnight rainfall ensured that ground conditions were extremely demanding at yesterday’s Kildorrery point-to-point meeting, run under the auspices of the Duhallow Foxhounds on the Vaughan family’s lands at Rockmills Stud.

In-form handler Michael Winters must have felt like Bill Murray’s character in the widely-acclaimed film Groundhog Day at yesterday’s well-attended Killeagh Harriers point-to-point meeting as, for the second Sunday running, he struck with a hugely-exciting newcomer that had many of those present searching for previously unused superlatives.

Mesmerising. That’s really the only way that one could justifiably describe the performance of the Michael Winters-trained For Carmel at yesterday’s well-attended Muskerry Foxhounds point-to-point fixture on Jack Murphy’s farm at Aghabullogue as the towering bay hardly broke sweat on his initial career outing in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden.

In 2005, Michael Gibbons was in a helicopter crash. He survived but his two best friends died. It was two years before he walked again but he tells Ailin Quinlan it thaught him to ’dance in the rain’.