Transport Minister Shane Ross has pledged to go ahead with plans to name and shame drink drivers as road safety campaigners lambasted rural TDs for opposing stricter penalties for offenders.

Kya deLongchamps takes a wincing look at the most peculiar protuberance of male attire which thankfully wilted in the age of Shakespeare’s ‘A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream’.

Kyle Edmund’s Davis Cup debut turned from a dream to a nightmare as David Goffin fought back from two sets down for the first time in his career to win the opening point of the final for Belgium in Ghent.

A man who has locked-in syndrome following an operation at Cork University Hospital was yesterday awarded a €10m lump sum payment in final settlement of his High Court action.

A man who has locked-in syndrome following an operation at Cork University Hospital is in line for a €10m lump sum payment in final settlement of his High Court action.

As a child, Carole wrote long diary entries and letters to anyone who would reply, and as a teenager she wrote short stories. Some were published, and others shortlisted in competitions. 

A man who suffers locked-in syndrome following an operation at Cork University Hospital is in line for a lump-sum payment running to millions of euro in a final settlement of his case after a judge yesterday found in his favour on his future care needs.

The defining events in Eugene O’Neill’s life took place before he was born. <B>Liam Heylin </b>on an unblinking biography.

Liam Broady and Kyle Edmund are both just one match away from qualifying for the Australian Open for the first time after impressive performances in Melbourne on Thursday.

The parents of a man with locked in syndrome after an operation at Cork University Hospital have told the High Court they have totally lost confidence in the HSE as a provider of services for their son.

Here's our spoiler-free guide to the best shows on TV tonight.

Check out our spoiler-free tips on what?s best to watch on TV tonight.

Kerins O’Rahillys set up a winner-takes-all clash with Austin Stacks in Division 1 of the county league thanks to a 0-12 to 1-9 draw with Killarney Legion on Saturday.

St Kieran’s 2-13 West Kerry 1-12

Teenager Kyle Edmund is one of two British players to be announced by the All England Club as wildcard entries for the men’s singles at Wimbledon, with James Ward also on the list.

St Kieran’s 0-20 Kilcummin 0-11

OWEN Roe is one of Irish theatre’s most prized actors.

Bookmakers will be taking flurries of bets on what the duke and duchess of Cambridge will choose to call the eagerly anticipated new prince or princess.

An accountant with the Irish Coursing Club was fired for involvement in a “cover-up” which allowed a former club CEO to spend funds on his own “personal lifestyle”, the Employment Appeals Tribunal has heard.

St Kieran’s 2-11 Kerins O’Rahillys 0-14

Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes) suffer a miserable stay with stuffy cousin, Eustace Scrubb (Will Poulter).

A MARRIED woman out for an early-morning cycle was struck and killed by a learner driver who was overtaking a cattle truck, a court heard.

NARNIA is by any reckoning a strange place.

IT’S DIFFICULT to know how to review Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (US/12A/146 mins).

KILLIAN KINGSTON finished strongly to beat Vincent Kiely by well over a bowl in the semi-final of the Murphy’s Stout Munster Junior A championship at Whitechurch.

HE’S been called the forgotten man of Irish rugby, the one that got away, the one who slipped through Leinster’s net, but Leicester Tigers’ Irish winger Johne Murphy, isn’t looking back in anger.

A FIANNA Fáil TD’s son was hit three times with a bottle after he went to help his father during incidents near a pub more than two years ago, Clonmel Circuit Court heard yesterday.

A new rugby trophy contested by England and the All Blacks will honour the late Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand Prime Minster Helen Clark announced today.

A TIPPERARY man, who murdered his girlfriend in a frenzied attack with two knives after a cocktail of alcohol, cannabis and Valium, was yesterday jailed for life.

BERNADETTE Coffey went to the church in Bantry yesterday morning and lit a candle for Paddy.

DIGNITARIES from around the world paid their respects to Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary at his state funeral yesterday.

New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark today has paid personal condolences to the widow of Mount Everest conqueror Edmund Hillary, who died this week.

Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest has died, New Zealand’s prime minister Helen Clark said tonight.

US politicians, following a request from the House Ethics Committee, are surveying aides and former House pages to find out if any of them had knowledge of ex-congressman Mark Foley’s inappropriate conduct toward male pages.

A Polish opposition party today urged the government to buy the house where the late Pope John Paul II was born and which hosts a museum in his honour.

British church leaders are urging families to see new Disney movie The chronicles of Narnia: The lion, the witch and the wardrobe, because it promotes Christian values.

RETIRED motor racing star Eddie Irvine has been branded "a coward" by his former business partner in a further escalation of a bitter legal row between the one-time best friends.

THE former business partner of Eddie Irvine has claimed he was forced into giving the retired racing driver a 50% shareholding in two Dublin pubs in return for a €500,000 loan.

Jimmy Woulfe

“SHE was well guarded, there was no danger of her being kidnapped.”

FORMER Formula One racing driver Eddie Irvine claims he has lost €1.8m over his investment in one of Dublin’s trendiest bars.