Romance was written in the sand rather than the stars for Debra Hartigan and Trevor Murphy.

William poked fun at himself after he questioned a paramedic about whether he thought coverage of the illness was “being a little hyped up” in the media.

Emily and Jack continued to be the most popular names given to babies born last year, while Fiadh and Hannah broke into the top five girl's names for the first time.

‘More mná’ was the slogan printed on Social Democrat councillor Holly Cairn’s badges as she and her campaigners pounded the pavements and by-roads around Cork South West’s extensive sprawl.

TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Turlough Duffy raised an eyebrow ever so slightly at his teacher’s suggestion that he be on the debating team opposing the motion: “We need a change of government.”

The father-of-two, aged 33 and from the Short Strand, was stabbed and beaten by IRA members outside Magennis’s bar in Belfast city centre in January 2005 and died the next day.

Minister for Sport Shane Ross has tonight welcomed the appointment of Independent directors to the board of the FAI.

The FAI have announced the appointment of Roy Barrett, the MD of Goodbody Stockbrokers, as their new Independent Chairman.

The brutal death of Frankie Dunne, whose dismembered body was found dumped behind a derelict house in Cork just over a week ago, is incomprehensible, wrong, pointless and without justification, mourners at his funeral Mass were told.

On the threshold of the year to come, some well-known people tell Donal O’Keeffe their new year’s resolutions.

A firefighter who drank up to 15 pints before he knocked down a 27-year-old man walking home from St Stephen's Day celebrations has been jailed for five and a half years.

Chris Wasser takes a closer look at the enduring legacy and phenomenal impact on literature and film of Charles Dickens’ life-affirming classic, ‘A Christmas Carol’

This week I am going to devote my entire column to cakes and baking.

To mark the anniversary of its founding, St Aloysius School in Cork City is preparing to open its doors on Saturday, November 16, to welcome back past-students and staff members who may want to take a stroll down memory lane.

She is an aviation finance expert, with more than 25 years’ experience.

Teagasc has appointed two new cattle specialists, Martina Harrington to cover the South East and Catherine Egan in the West and Midlands region.

The Ryans could never have imagined just how big a part UCC would play in their lifelong romance.

Generations have walked over it and soon it will have a name, as University College Cork (UCC) today plans to brand the historic bridge at its ceremonial gate as the Alumni Bridge.

Robert Hume tells of the eccentric MP for Athboy, Co. Meath – born 300 years ago this month – who thought he was a teapot, and was afraid his spout might break off.

Here is a selection of people who have recently been appointed to interesting new roles.

Anna Marie Kiernan watched sepsis rob her brother of a fantastic future and rob her family of a chance to watch him live it.

Dublin City Council has secured temporary High Court injunctions requiring over 40 residents to immediately leave three city-centre buildings they reside at, due to fire safety concerns.

June O’Flynn manages Philip’s Bookshop on Main Street in Mallow, Co Cork, with her mother Catherine. It sells books, school supplies, stationery and gifts.

Historian Catherine Corless, who exposed the Tuam Babies scandal, tells Donal O’Keeffe why she feels Tuam and Bessborough need to be excavated, and highlights Pope Francis’ apparent confusion about Tuam.

Diarmuid Cohalan joined the Beef Plan Movement protest and found no airs and graces, but plenty humour

Sending a child off to college is a bit like taking the stabilisers off of their bike for the first time. They will wobble but the grown up must stay in the background and only intervene when absolutely necessary.

Tributes have been paid to "angel" Jessica Moore who died after becoming unwell at her Debs in Co Galway on Monday.

Tributes are being paid to the young woman who died after a Debs in Ballinasloe, Co Galway.

A 19-year-old girl who died after becoming unwell at her Debs in Co Galway has been named as Jessica Moore.

A man who was wrongfully arrested the same night his fiancée was savagely beaten by another man in a random street attack has been awarded more than €1.1m by a High Court jury.

Armagh held off a powerful final quarter surge by comeback specialists Cork to earn a precious victory in Group 1 of the TG4 All-Ireland SFC at O’Connor Park in Tullamore.

A garda sergeant told the High Court officers did their "very best with good intent" for a woman who had been viciously beaten although, initially, they had not ruled out her fiancée as a person of interest in the investigation.

Presentation Convent is about to leave the order’s hands, after almost 100 years in their ownership.

A garda sergeant has told the High Court she had to pepper spray a man who is suing for wrongful arrest because he was shouting aggressively and was intimidating.

At both primary and secondary level, school places for special needs children are at a premium and parents are under huge pressure with the lack of supports, writes Noel Baker

Michael Doran is quite a new entrant to dairy farming based at Johnstown, Duncormick, Co Wexford.

For gardeners, visiting a plant fair is like being a child in a sweetshop, says Peter Dowdall.

The family of a Co Derry woman who died after collapsing at a GAA match are to donate her organs.

Jazz and punk rock may seem like opposite ends of the musical spectrum, but to drummer Brian Chase, switching between genres is all in a day’s work.

Vulture funds and private (which citizens bailed out) banks sell indebted mortgages and pursue families, in a manner no way easy to differentiate from medieval church torturers, stretching embattled families on the fiscal rack, breaking them on the Catherine wheel of ghastly personal mortgage debt, then moving on to other loan bundles containing, inevitably, more terribly distressed families in private mortgage debt.