Growing up in Ballyclough, Co Cork, you couldn’t get Laura Fitzgerald off the farm.

Stephanie Hickey endured years of childhood sexual abuse and rape at the hands of her brother-in-law. She tells Rita de Brún about waving her anonymity in court to have her persecutor named, and why despite the toll it took on herself and her family, she has no regrets.

Keep chomping on those carrots so your eyes will be in perfect working order for that prolonged annual gaze through the keyhole as Home of the Year returns for a sixth series next week.

It turns out 40 is no longer the new 30 – a new study says 47 is the age of peak unhappiness. The mid-life crisis is all too real, writes Antoinette Tyrrell.

There has long been a tradition of supporting charities in the comedy scene. Esther McCarthy talks to top Irish comedians about the causes close to their hearts

Growing up in Cork, Stephen Bradley dreamed of becoming an actor.

At Duggan Park Rena’s legend grows with 21st national title

From Eyeries, on West Cork’s Beara Peninsula, the producers of Milleens Dote cheese are thrilled to have won a two-star 2019 Great Taste award, as well as a one-star for their Dunnes Stores Céad cheese.

As the dark evenings draw in, Ciara McDonnell rounds up the cosiest hotel breaks

An 83-year old grandmother says she is 'still on a high' after jumping 10,000 ft from an aeroplane on her first skydive last weekend.

Darkness halted play in the AIG Ladies Cup and Shields Finals where the destiny all six green pennants will be decided on what promises to be a Super Saturday at Knightsbrook Hotel, Spa & Golf Resort.

It’s All-Ireland camogie finals weekend and despite some critical commentary on the game (or the rules) over the past year, there is a good buzz about Sunday, generated from an exciting championship with plenty of positive talking points.

Horse Racing Ireland yesterday took evasive action to avoid a direct clash between day one of Longines Irish Champions Weekend at Leopardstown and the replayed All-Ireland SFC final.

Tim had popped the question during a weekend trip to Paris as they strolled along the Champs-Élysées.

The conversation takes place prior to the dreadful news his friend and long-time weigh-room colleague Pat Smullen would need to undergo a further course of chemotherapy following a setback in his recovery from pancreatic cancer.

Monika Szurkus-Urbanaka is being put forward for the title of Carer of the Year after performing the daring rescue at the home of one of her clients

Detectives believe that two people hold the key to gardaí finalising their file to the DPP on the abduction and murder of Deirdre Jacob more than 20 years ago.

Gardaí in Kildare have renewed an appeal for information in relation to Deirdre Jacob who has been missing for 21 years today.

Age is just a number for Annette Callan whose grandchildren call her 'Supergran' and make her play in midfield with them at soccer.

The wife of an Irish mountaineer who tragically died on Europe’s highest mountain has said she has lost her “best friend”.

Deirdre O’Donovan has been appointed as the new head of security operations and police at Cork Airport.

The race for seats in Ireland South has heated up as Labour candidate Shelia Nunan and Fine Gael's Andrew Doyle have both been eliminated in the 15th count.

A memorial service is to be on Monday for a father-of-one who died just hours after summiting the world’s highest mountain.

Election candidate Deirdre Clune recently visited a school where pupils are taught to elect a council. The Cork MEP says she’s learned a lot about politics in recent years too, writes Catherine Shanahan

With Rosalia Long’s Zumba moves triggering positive feelings left, right and centre, Beaumont Girls National School was as good a place as any to re-energise for the final week of European Elections campaigning.

Gardaí are appealing for help in finding a missing woman.

The Tánaiste has rejected suggestions that Fine Gael is denying voters the right to hear what their candidates have to say by banning Sean Kelly and Andrew Doyle from tomorrow night's Irish Examiner hustings.

Built on a foundation of friendship and innovation, West Cork Distillers was established in 2003 by three lifelong friends, Denis McCarthy, Ger McCarthy and John O’Connell in the heart of West Cork at Union Hall.

Eve Kelliher gets the inside track from leading interior designer Deirdre Whelan.

Automated braking and reducing blind spots in trucks are just some of the new measures set to come into law, writes Deirdre Clune, Ireland South MEP

Waterford City auctioneer Ennis Gough Property is offering an intriguing 57-acre holding in South Tipperary.

Former World Champion and Olympic medal-winning race walker, Rob Heffernan, will have to keep a slower pace than usual when he serves as Grand Marshal at the Cork city St Patrick’s day parade which gets under way at 1pm tomorrow.

In this exclusive extract from Colm O’Regan’s new book, ‘Ann Devine Ready for Her Close-Up’, mammy and daughter tiptoe through the social niceties of the community meeting and ponder the fate of the bats.

Tributes have been paid to Aoife O’Connell, a 21-year-old Cork student who has been killed in a road traffic collision in the Netherlands.

One of the most significant buildings of its type in Limerick has been thoroughly renovated and now has an energy rating that’d be the envy of many a new home, writes Trish Dromey.