His mother said there is now a road in Bangladesh called to the Ryan road while Micheál has been posthumously appointed Chief Engineer of the UN World Food Programme.

A husband and wife passed away from cancer within minutes of each other, after 32 years of marriage.

Children's rights activist Christina Noble has spoken publicly for the first time about her son being taken from her, at a mother and baby home in Dublin.

With so many demands on their time, how do Christmas dads keep going during the festive season? Esther McCarthy talks to four celebrities about juggling it all. 

With the benefit of hindsight, Sarah Tierney looks back on it now with a sense of perspective.

Children's rights activist Christina Noble has been held a knife point in her own home.

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Julie Sharkey stars in the Everyman’s production of Dancing at Lughnasa, writes Colette Sheridan

In the 1960’s, enterprising Corkman Dermot O’Regan had a nice little earner going as he travelled the region selling crates salvaged from the Ford factory.

Literary inspirations shaped some of this season’s finest fragrances, says Rachel Marie Walsh.

The sentences handed down at Limerick Circuit Court on December 15 to two cousins, who were involved in a burglary in which the bachelor homeowner died of a heart attack when he went to challenge the intruders, is to be appealed by the DPP as unduly lenient.

Two criminals, both with long lists of previous convictions, ignored pleas for help from a dying man’s sister as they fled from his home which they had just burgled. They have now been jailed, but could be due for release within 16 months.

To say a fighter is ‘hungry’ may be an old boxing cliché, but in Katie Taylor’s case it seems like – purely in a literal sense – she no longer has the appetite she used to.

Katie Taylor has backed Christina Desmond to become a future star following her European medal success.

The two men killed in a car accident in Canada over the weekend have been named locally as Raymond McCann and Cathal Murphy, both from Cork.

A mother, whose son was killed by a drink driver, has backed a new road safety strategy for Cork which aims to reduce annual road deaths in Ireland’s largest county.

LIKE the conclusion of the latest court case involving a disgraced former banker, by the end of Declan Lynch’s fourth novel, The Ponzi Man, you’ll be left asking, is that it?

John Kelly is an artist. His father is from Cork, and mother from Bristol. The family emigrated to Australia in 1965, the year of John’s birth. Kelly has lived in all three countries and for the past decade has resided in West Cork. This week, his exhibition, John Kelly: A Group Show, will open at Uillinn in Skibbereen.

An offering to the plane gods.

Being stuck on a plane with a crying baby can be a nightmare but it’s worse for the poor parents who are trying their best to sooth them.

Three men appeared yesterday at Kilmallock District Court charged in relation to armed raids and the false imprisonment of residents at three homes in Co Limerick almost four years ago.

Ummm, let’s just say we’re glad you concentrated on the acting Brie.

A Cork Leaving Certificate student is the only European to be invited to participate in a prestigious legal competition in California later this year.

Three sisters have given birth to three babies all in one day at Mayo General Hospital in Castlebar.

Hopes that some good might come out of the tragic death of a beloved man were expressed at his funeral yesterday.

The death of a 62-year-old man who died after finding intruders in his home will not be in vain, as it has raised a national awareness of the fear elderly people are living with in rural communities in Ireland, a priest hassaid.

A photo of a little Filipino boy doing his homework on the street by the light of McDonalds is going viral after being posted to Facebook.

USA: A delicious starter may seem like the perfect way to begin a memorable restaurant meal.

Christina McMahon is Ireland’s newest world boxing champion after winning the WBC World Interim Female Bantamweight earlier this month.

The 100,000 Kwacha purse — around €17,000 — is far short of the megabucks Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will earn in Nevada this weekend. 

As Graham Dwyer demonstrated, there  is an insatiable appetite for murder trials, especially when they involve people of privilege and leave endless questions unanswered. In the aftermath of the 40th anniversary of his disappearance, Caroline O’Doherty pores over a new book on Lord Lucan.

Just getting to face Mayo on Sunday will be something of an achievement for Paul Geaney.

Three members of an Irish family seriously hurt while visiting Australia early this month are continuing to recover in hospitals there.