Twin brothers Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf are promoting Toy Story 4 T-shirts specially produced to raise funds for Crumlin Children's Hospital.

It was a miserable day on Sunday in Cork. Rain teemed from a dark and unpleasant sky, the grass underneath turned to mud, there was no respite from the cold.

That was an interesting feature, written by Daragh Ó Conchúir, on trainer Tom Mullins, in last Saturday’s Irish Field.

The Christmas celebrations got off to a glittering start last night as upwards of 20,000 people flocked to Cork city centre for the switching on of the Christmas lights, with Lord Mayor Tony Fitzgerald lighting up the city centre shortly after 7pm.

Things we learned with Daragh Ó Conchúir

A 30 year old cyclist struck by a car in Dublin died of multiple traumatic injuries.

When Ford launched the new Fiesta in 1976, it signalled the company’s entry into the burgeoning ‘baby car’ or ‘supermini’ market.

More than 5,000 people have signed a petition, prompted by a spike in Cork City’s suicide rates, calling for the introduction of mandatory mental health classes in secondary schools.

Dr Phil Kieran, a co-presenter on RTÉ’s ‘You Should Really See a Doctor’ says the recent arrival of his second son means his running routine is on hold.

Beyond party town, it’s the place to begin exploring the great outdoors

It feels appropriate that we’ve parked for the night in Tours, to break up our mammoth, 900km trip from Bordeaux to Lille.

Your arms will be aching after just watching this video.

Two of the seven Irish people injured in the Berkeley balcony collapse remained in a serious condition in hospital last night.

The family of a rising sports star are praying he will make a full recovery after sustaining serious injuries in a car crash last night.

An RTE makeover show has given a Cork City restaurant a new lease of life.

The Acesigns Cork 20 International Rally, the final round of the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Championship, resulted in a record-breaking four-in-a-row victory for Midleton’s Daragh O’Riordan and his Derry co-driver Tony McDaid (Ford Fiesta WRC).

A GAA spectator was yesterday returned for trial concerning an alleged on-pitch assault that resulted in a footballer losing three teeth and being rendered unconscious.

Two men who barged their way into the home of two brothers because they claimed they wanted a “straightener” over a drug debt have been jailed for stabbing the men’s fathers.

Gardaí and military investigations are under way into the circumstances of the death of a 32-year-old solider in Dublin yesterday.

Military police and gardai have launched an investigation after the death of a soldier at a barracks in Dublin.

A teenage sailor dramatically rescued with 29 crew mates when a historic tall ship struck rocks and sank off the Cork coast has said emergency training helped them keep calm as they awaited help.

Tears mingled with laughter as the people of Ballyroan in Co Laois gathered in thousands to remember a “beautiful, radiant, joyful star”.

Who needs Dragons’ Den?

THE THOUGHTS of a package holiday in the Canaries have always filled me with dread.

Whatever their individual qualities, the combination of stages in the Killarney area and those within the Beara Peninsula are probably unequalled within Europe.

EAMON DUNPHY hadn’t a dream: he just had a hunch.

JUDGES found exceptional cleanliness on the farm of Michael and Thomas Enright from Ballynorth, Askeaton, Co Limerick, overall winners of the 2011 National Dairy Council Quality Milk Awards.

A RANGE of courses for unemployed professionals is already yielding work for students who returned to study at Cork Institute of Technology.

AS we enter the third world war — which is a cyber war — it is disturbing that our own media remain in an insular cocoon.

A wedding commitment caused Richard Hughes to miss the opportunity of bolstering his title challenge with two Richard Hannon-trained winners at Leicester today.

Richard Hannon's Vanguard Dream had no problems in taking his unbeaten record to two in the EBF Kegworth Novice Stakes at Leicester today.

CONOR PENDERGRAST was raised by two mothers, but somewhat bizarrely only came to the attention of playground bullies because of his English accent.

ON a sun-splashed day in Killarney, Bryan Sheehan experienced the sensation of lifting silverware in a Kerry senior jersey for the first time.

Tomas Ó Sé expects to be back in the Kerry set-up before the end of this month, as he ends his break from the game since the Kingdom’s All-Ireland triumph over Cork last September.

COMPOSER and singer Phil Coulter paid a moving tribute to Sebastian Creane yesterday, describing him as a man “any father would be delighted to have as a son.”

Daragh Ó Sé has committed himself to at least one more year in the Kerry jersey, despite not togging out for the Kingdom's league victory over Derry on Sunday.

BEING a Cork woman living in Kerry is not easy these days, but Kathy O’Callaghan is standing by her native county.

JAMES McGARRY last night revealed that the Kilkenny management wanted him to play the final minutes of Sunday’s All-Ireland final victory over Limerick.

Kerry full forward Kieran Donaghy has today insisted that his teammates are largely responsible for making him look good.

A mother and father looked on in horror as their teenage son, a talented Cork hurler with a history of heart problems, collapsed and died while playing for his local club, it emerged today.