The images last year of the small boy eating a plate of carbonara off a cardboard sheet laid on the pavement sparked public outrage and shone the spotlight once again on the homeless crisis. Noel Baker meets the boy and his mother to see how their lives have fared since and spends the night with the homeless freephone service in Dublin.

A selection of people starting new roles with companies in Ireland, including Expleo, Ecocem, Brewin Dolphin, Initiative Ireland, Three Ireland and ABP Food Group.

The 44-year-old was playing in his 498th event and had a 10-foot putt on the last to finally enter the winner’s circle 21 years after making his debut.

Property Bridges, already very successful in peer-to-peer property finance, has a new commercial lending product for SMEs and property investors

There is bound to be much interest in a 31.3-acre non-residential farm, situated just outside Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, that has just been put on the market with Midleton-based auctioneer David Keane.

Kerry manager Peter Keane has given no timeline as to when Paudie Clifford will make his senior debut.

On the one hand, Andy Friend is delighted that only Bundee Aki is missing on Six Nations duty as Connacht prepare for a real 10-pointer against a Cardiff Blues side who are just below them in the table.

“In terms of tradition,” says Tony Wall, “it is David versus Goliath”.

KBC bank has opened proceedings against members of a Co Roscommon family over their alleged failure to comply with a High Court order to vacate a farm that was the centre of a controversial eviction.

There was controversy about the amount of added time in three of the four Division 1 games this weekend, with Monaghan, Meath, and Galway feeling particularly aggrieved.

Jon Jonsson went missing a day after arriving in the city with his fiancée for a poker tournament.

Sinn Féin TD David Cullinane has said that he did not set out to offend anyone with remarks he made while celebrating his election in Waterford.

The family of the Irish businessman murdered in his home in 2015 are confident that the convictions for his violent killing will be upheld following a recent shock decision.

When Seamus Moynihan was handed the Kerry captaincy for 2000, as a result of East Kerry winning the county championship, David Clifford was only months old.

Galway hurlers are likely to be boosted by the return of Daithí and David Burke in time for their NHL clash with All-Ireland champions Tipperary next week, but Shane O’Neill is planning without the services of Joseph Cooney and John Hanbury for the foreseeable future.

A Cork City quayside prime redevelopment block may be about to move from trough to peak, with the planned sale of a key corner building, McLaughlins, which even — appropriately — has a

Defending champions Limerick’s “in it to win it” approach under John Kiely again manifested itself as they extended their winning League run to six games going back to last season.

Last year, it was the story of his father rebuking Peter the learner driver for asking questions about the road two miles away: “We’ll worry about that when we get there.”

Three-time amateur golf champion and Shane Lowry’s fitness coach, Robbie Cannon, made another name for himself assisting John Sugrue to successive promotions with Laois. Now he’s bringing his expertise to Tipperary’s footballers in their hunt for promotion from Division Three of the Allianz League

Why is the David Clifford Kerry captaincy an issue at all?, asks Tony Leen.

John Fogarty previews Division 1 of the Allianz Football League.

Thursday was the third anniversary of Martin McGuinness’ decision to stand down as Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister and close that early chapter in the current, as yet unrealised, normalisation of that society, its relationships with its neighbours, and its neighbours’ relationship with it.

Developers return to their roots with €14m residential project on historic Youghal site, writes Tommy Barker.

I am the restaurant manager in Sheen Falls Lodge. I have been the manager since the beginning of 2018.

If ever an island were misnamed it must be the small Cow island which lies 2.5km off Dursey Head on the Beara Peninsula.

St Thomas’s Kenneth Burke has predicted his cousin Fintan Burke will be the next family member to break into the Galway set-up after his recovery from a knee injury.

Moving on from being the mod who fronted bands such as the Lower Third, David Bowie released a strange yet enchanting debut album in 1967, and became something of a folky troubadour in 1969, but ultimately was proving to be something of a one-hit-wonder after ‘Space Oddity’.

They’ve competed at European and Olympic level but this victory with their kids was extra special because it will change lives.