The HSE has defended using children in sting operations to catch retailers who are selling alcohol to underage customers.

Kya deLongchamps asks the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland to address five key issues on home upgrades

The IRFU’s updated concussion guide for the amateur game, issued last week, is an indication of how sports’ governing bodies are striving to keep up to speed with the medical profession’s developing knowledge of the condition.

East meets west: Ying Chun Xu teaching Chinese to Chappy, seven, left, Milly, five, and Harry Harvin, 10.

IT USED to be considered a cushy number. A free university education, the chance to travel, accommodation and housekeeper provided, instant respect, a fair degree of power, opportunities for promotion, a pension, security for life.