The jetty is a bit shaky and the timbers are rotted in places, but the wooden structure is sound enough to permit visitors to Illaunslea, Kenmare Bay, Co Kerry.

I finally saw the John Lewis ad. This will come as a relief to the John Lewis people as they may have been wondering if all the right “influencers” have seen it. It’s OK, John Lewis People. You can close the door because I’m safely in anyway.

A Meath family have been left “happier than any lottery winners” after being reunited with their beloved pet dog who went missing from their home six months ago.

The death has taken place of Paddy O’Callaghan, of Cromane, Co Kerry, who was well-known as a sportsman, republican, and community activist.

Two winning tickets to split $636m US lottery

WHAT’S the Irish for ‘D’oh!’, or ‘hey, Bert,’ or ‘You bastards. You killed Kenny’?

At 83, Ruth Rendell is still writing a novel a year and is as reluctant to slip into retirement as her long-time hero, former Chief Inspector Wexford, she tells Hannah Stephenson

The parents of Mari Keane-Connolly yesterday said they will never forgive John Lynch for killing their little daughter.

With pig-tails, pink glasses and a cute smile, this could be a picture of any five-year-old little girl. However, it is actually a little boy who is living as a girl after telling his mother he is trapped in the wrong body.

THE tiny white coffin was decorated with Dora the Explorer stickers, but everyone attending five-year-old Mari Connolly’s funeral yesterday would have known her favourite colour was pink.

THERE is a reason for the grey hair you see in the accompanying picture.

'The Wire' star Dominic West is set to play serial killer Fred West in a new ITV drama, it has been announced.

HERE’S an authentic text exchange which took place between myself and a fellow football fanatic last Monday morning.

Dominic West has married his long-term partner Catherine Fitzgerald in Limerick.

THE world’s tallest man says it is high time he found love.

IRELAND has been condemned for not investing enough in the future welfare of children by the world’s leading promoter of economic growth.

BUZZ WEXLER is a lean, mean, nipped and tucked, narcissistic music promoter at the top of her career.

THE text message from Adrian Dunne’s mobile phone the morning he wiped out his family was almost tender in its simplicity.

WHITE-WASHED walls, a clutch of children’s toys, a line of flapping clothes. From the outside, the home of Gillian and Shane Malley looks like any other family home.

BARNEY may be a blessing and Dora just adorable but parents are being urged to think twice before they allow their pre-schoolers to watch the antics of their favourite TV characters.

A WEST Limerick farmer who led Golden Vale Co-op through one if its most difficult stages has passed away.

Eva Longoria and new husband Tony Parker vow to teach their future children to speak in three different languages.

US toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of Chinese-made toys over concerns about excessive amounts of lead in their paint.

MORE than 50 people who held a protest outside the County Hall yesterday heard that Cork County Council is to take a mobile phone company to court to force it to remove a controversial mast.

MORE than 50 people who held a protest outside County Hall yesterday heard that Cork County Council is to take a mobile phone company to court to force it to remove a controversial mast.

THEY were to be buried in their Liverpool tops and new Dora The Explorer denim jeans, little Leanne and Shania Dunne, in white coffins with pink stripes.

A car bomb killed at least eight people outside a Sunni mosque in Baghdad today and gunmen abducted a Sunni cleric, raising sectarian tensions as the election commission gave the final go-ahead for talks to begin in earnest on a new government.

A ROMANIAN Orthodox priest, facing charges for ordering the crucifixion of a young nun because she was “possessed by the devil”, was unrepentant as he celebrated a funeral ceremony for his alleged victim on Saturday.