US stocks inched higher on Monday as the Standard & Poor's 500 index steadied following back-to-back losses over the last two weeks.

Fachtna Boland, the grandson and adopted son of former Defence Minister Kevin Boland, has settled a court case in which he had sought to evict his natural mother, Síle Boland, who is a daughter of the former minister.

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It’s 41 years since the Swedish band won Eurovision with ’Waterloo’, but, at 68, co-writer Andersson is still diversifying. The composer of musicals Chess and Mamma Mia has just produced a teen horro with his son, writes Helen Barlow

Cricket’s progression in Ireland from minority interest to the World Cup stage can arguably be attributed to one man, from one extraordinary family.

You’re one of us now, the justice minister told more than 800 new Irish citizens yesterday as UCC hosted its first citizenship ceremonies.

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Francois Hollande planned to announce to the world’s press last Tuesday that he and Valerie Trierweiler had officially split, but his plans were scrapped after his partner was hospitalised, according to reports.

The grandmother of a toddler with Down’s syndrome has been waiting a year for a response from the Taoiseach and three government ministers to correspondence about disability cuts referred to them on her behalf by the troika.

The new lord mayor of Cork ignored a large vocal protest last night and vowed to review city centre parking policy and advance plans for a new food emporium for the city.

A romcom based on one of Cecilia Ahern’s best-selling novels is set to begin shooting this summer with Phil Collins’s daughter in the lead role.

We challenged three busy mums to take time out and do something for themselves. It was easier said than done, writes Catherine Shanahan.

GIRLFRIENDS come in all shapes and sizes. The ones from way back, who’ve stuck with you when your taste in men was dire and your fashion sense was the pits.

A 24-year-old disabled nun narrowly avoided drowning when 4ft of water rushed into her family’s home in Glanmire last week as she slept in her wheelchair.

AN ACTOR breathes life into a character but a costume can transcend time and language to make it iconic.

The delivery of a hi-tech lifeboat to Baltimore will give an enormous sense of security and reassurance to island and coastal communities, a mother and her “lifeboat baby” daughter said.

RAILWAY UNION’S Julia O’Halloran will seek to plot the demise of some old friends as she welcomes her former UCC colleagues to Park Avenue for a refixed Irish Hockey League clash tomorrow (5pm).

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FRANCE’S first lady Carla Bruni is expected to give birth any day soon, keeping French media on tenterhooks before an event that could offer President Nicolas Sarkozy a welcome respite from non-stop political headwinds.

SLEEPING BEAUTY, a film billed as an erotic thriller by first-time Australian director Julia Leigh, had audiences squirming at its premiere in competition in Cannes yesterday.

SLEEPING BEAUTY, a film billed as an erotic thriller by first-time Australian director Julia Leigh, had audiences squirming at its premiere in competition in Cannes yesterday.

A MOTHER who stabbed her three young children to death after fearing she would lose them in a bitter custody battle was jailed for 16 years yesterday.

Fresh from receiving critical praise for her return to the West End, Sienna Miller has launched a new collection of clothes with older sister Savannah.

Sienna Miller has received dazzling reviews from theatre critics after making her return to the West End following a six-year absence.

An American woman has admitted killing her three children in Edinburgh last year.

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy’s marriage to Carla Bruni, an Italian-born heiress and ex-supermodel long considered among the world’s most desirable women, was touted as a coup for the French leader.

A mother was today charged with murdering her three children when she appeared before a specially-convened court hearing at a hospital.

The mother of three children found dead in their home has been charged with their murder.

A judge warned that three children at the centre of a bitter custody battle in the UK could be in danger just 24 hours before they were found dead, it emerged tonight.

FRANCE’s first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has dismissed as “insignificant” rumours of infidelity by her and her husband, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and brushed off theories that lies were planted in a plot to bring down the glamorous couple.

It has already been transformed into an Oscar-winning movie, and now Ian McEwan’s widely-acclaimed novel 'Atonement' is to get the opera treatment.

FRANCE was buzzing last night as claims President Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife Carla Bruni were both having affairs gathered steam.

THE sister of the 26-year-old school teacher who died following an alleged assault in Ennis on St Stephen’s night has described her brother “as a role model, inspiring son and loyal friend”.

AS he so often proved while giving evidence to the Mahon corruption probe, few people in Irish public life are better at telling stories than Bertie Ahern.

She’s out of the maternity ward and into a Cabinet meeting, dressed in elegant black and stiletto heels – five days after giving birth at age 43.

CECILIA AHERN’S latest novel is called The Gift. It is a work of fiction and not about her father, the former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, but he enjoys a rare political gift that even a novelist of Cecilia’s imagination would be hard-pressed to put down on paper without testing credulity too much.

CARLA BRUNI has made it onto a list of the world’s most stylish individuals — but her husband, the French president, has been booted out of the top 10.

BERTIE AHERN is finished.

A LETTER that arrived from Irish Life & Permanent in the Mahon Tribunal on March 5 was to prove pivotal in the inquiry’s investigation of Bertie Ahern’s finances and one that probably ultimately brought a premature end to his long tenure as taoiseach.

A MANCHESTER businessman has admitted forgetting to inform the Mahon Tribunal that he had left Bertie Ahern a house in Dublin because he didn’t believe the document that bequeathed the property to him was a will.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said tonight he will push for a European Union-wide agreement on whether to boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

THE ex-wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has wed a public relations executive in a chic ceremony that the French media poked fun at yesterday.