“Nobody wants to hear of their dad, you know, being hit over the head with a crutch. It’s awful...”

The Tánaiste has said allegations of children being mishandled and yelled at by staff at three Dublin creches will be given “highest priority”.

An exclusive creche probed during an undercover investigation into allegations of mistreatment of children has confirmed it has sacked one worker and suspended three others.

Fifteen years after the longest running inquiry into political corruption in Ireland was established, its final findings have been published.

The Mahon tribunal’s marathon trawl of finances uncovered more than a quarter of a million in unexplained lodgements into accounts linked to the former taoiseach.

Fifteen years after the country's longest running inquiry into political corruption in Ireland was established its final findings have been published.

THE victim’s of the state fishery board’s single worst tragedy are to be remembered this weekend.

AUTHOR Cecelia Ahern married her partner David Keoghan at a secret civil ceremony yesterday.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern will not pay tax on the estimated €400,000 earned from his autobiography thanks to the artists’ exemption introduced by his former Fianna Fáil colleague and political mentor, the late Charles Haughey.

Cecelia and Bertie: chicklit and codlit.

FROM music to movies to motoring, Ireland’s richest celebrities are set to be unveiled and their wealth revealed.

Would author Cecelia Ahern’s first play, Mrs Whippy, impress ardent fan Niamh Hennessy and critic Marc O’Sullivan? We sent both along to find out if Ahern has made a successful leap into the world of theatre.

The late Hollywood legend Gregory Peck is to be honoured at the Dingle Film Festival in September.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern is in negotiation with book publishers to write his memoirs.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern said he won £8,000 gambling on horses in 1996 and lodged the sterling sum into the bank account of his daughters, Cecelia and Georgina.

Just as Bertie Ahern bows out as Taoiseach, daughter Cecelia’s ‘PS I Love You’ (Momentum, €24.99) arrives on DVD.

THERE is a contrast between Europe and America but not a contradiction, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told the joint houses of Congress yesterday.

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AFTER admitting she lodged sterling on behalf of the Taoiseach, his former constituency office secretary Gráinne Carruth broke down in the Mahon Tribunal witness box yesterday.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern would have given her oral instructions when he gave her money to lodge on his behalf, his former constituency secretary Gráinne Carruth told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.

FORMER building society manager Blair Hughes told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday he believed Irish punt lodgments to the accounts of the Taoiseach and his daughters came from cash exchanges of stg£15,500.

Cecelia Ahern has written best-selling novels, one of which, PS, I Love You, could become an award-winning film when it is released at the end of the year.

CHICK-LIT novelist Cecelia Ahern’s latest book has sold more copies than all the six novels on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize.

IT was a financial stroke of luck that even Bertie Ahern couldn’t dream of. His daughter Cecelia’s boyfriend David Keoghan put €100 each way and €100 to win on My Valley at 25 to 1 and came out €6,000 wealthier.

AS TDs huddled together in the chamber waiting to vote, the shifting scene was reminiscent of a playground on the first day of term.

The Irish Taoiseach’s eldest daughter Georgina is expecting a baby with her husband, Westlife singer Nicky Byrne, it was confirmed today.

FIGHTING back tears, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern last night claimed he took €50,000 from businessmen while Finance Minister partly for the sake of his daughters’ education.

POWER and money mingle with ease in Galway. Where else would you see the Taoiseach having a laugh with billionaires like Michael Smurfit and JP McManus?

SUPERSTARS Michael Jackson, Harrison Ford and Lauren Bacall were among 3,000 friends, family and fans who bade an emotional farewell to Hollywood legend Gregory Peck.

ON a bitingly cold January afternoon it was hard to imagine a sunny June 2004 day when Moore Street Plaza becomes a resplendent showcase of downtown Dublin.