PROGRESSIVE academic Dr Jean van Sinderen-Law, director of development at UCC, has won the WMB Businesswoman of the Year Award 2010.

PHARMACEUTICAL company Abbott Vascular and Cavan County Council were announced as the overall winners of the O2 Ability Awards in Dublin last night.

Hundreds of families will benefit from a new website launched by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today.

Special Olympics supremo Mary Davis is to head a new national citizenship task force to urge people to get involved in voluntary work in their communities.

ALMOST half a million working women have no private pensions to support them in their future years, it emerged yesterday.

Females across Ireland will today mark International Women’s Day by celebrating the economic, social, cultural and political achievements of those who have made history.

THE Forum of Young Global Leaders, an affiliate of the World Economic Forum, has named Caroline Casey, Founder of The Aisling Foundation and the 02 Ability Awards Programme, a Young Global Leader 2006.

Two visually-impaired runners completed an incredible 32-mile challenge across 32 counties tonight and hailed the spirit of Irish adventure and the abilities of people with a disability as their inspiration.

BETTY O’LEARY is a successful barrister. She is also blind from birth and uses information technology to guide her through her legal briefs.

DUBLIN woman Caroline Casey has completed a modern adventure version of the round-the-world trip created by author Jules Verne.

HE'S been man of the match more than once in his career, but being named man of the year had even the Mighty Quinn feeling humbled.

WHO would choose to take to the water on Friday the Thirteenth in - of all transports - a cardboard boat? Our intrepid quartet didn’t look or talk crazy yesterday as they rowed up the Liffey in the unusual craft, a freshening easterly astern.

Irish adventurer, Caroline Casey announced her latest imaginative venture today in London.