AT 7.18pm Maura Harrington walked into the hall. She strode through the centre aisle, all the way to the front of the stage.

A SPECIAL documentary on late 2FM broadcaster Gerry Ryan will be among the highlights of Christmas TV on RTÉ.

AN order winding up Pierse Contracting and Pierse Building Services with the loss of 109 jobs was made at the High Court yesterday after the heavily insolvent companies withdrew their petition for examinership.

THE US right-to-die activist, suspected of assisting the suicide of a south Dublin woman today faces a bail hearing as gardaí try to extradite him to Ireland.

Want something to read on World Book Day today? Mark Gallagher talks to Joseph O’Connor, whose latest novel became a best-seller a year after publication.