Eithne has always wanted to achieve things young. She was first published aged 11, receiving £20 for a poem. At 21, she joined The Sunday Times, but took a break after a year to live in Paris and write.

Two Dublin men have been handed life sentences for the murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly who was shot dead outside a pub in Meath in 2013.

The Irish Defence Forces LÉ Eithne captain and crew took part in a Christmas Jumper Day for CMRF Crumlin’s Tiny Hearts Appeal.

Enda Kenny’s meeting with Pope Francis in the Vatican had the hallmarks of a formal state visit, but it felt like an intimate family gathering where strained relations were finally addressed, writes Juno McEnroe

The Irish naval vessel LE Roisin has left Ireland for search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean.

The Naval Service will extend its humanitarian operations in the Mediterranean Sea until the end of November and will send a third ship on the EU-led mission.

The Government is expected to extend the Irish Naval Service humanitarian mission in the Mediterranean today as donations flood in for an aid convoy bound for Calais.

Irish Naval crew on board the LÉ Eithne used colouring books and toys to calm the fears of children they plucked from tiny boats floating dangerously in the Mediterranean.

A West Cork boy who donated €100 of his Holy Communion money to charity has been identified following an appeal.

The tugboat Gerry O’Sullivan sprayed arcs of water, other Navy ships sounded their horns in salutem and families cheered and waved flags on the quayside as the LÉ Eithne pulled into base.

Irish Navy vessels the LÉ Eithne and LÉ James Joyce were welcomed into Cork Harbour earlier today; Graham Dwyer’s girlfriend said today that she is pulling back from the relationship; and cannabis could help heal fractured bones. Here’s this evening’s irishexaminer.com round-up.

This West Cork boy is a huge source of pride for his parents and teachers today.

Families are expected to crowd the quayside in Haulbowline next Friday to welcome home the 69-strong crew of LÉ Eithne after a rescue mission which saw them pluck 3,376 migrants from unseaworthy craft in the Mediterranean Sea.

The tired crew of LÉ Eithne could leave for home as early as this weekend after rescuing 3,376 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea.

Defence Minister Simon Coveney has said he believes the crew of the LÉ Eithne are not under “any undue pressure” despite rescuing almost 3,000 people from rafts in the Mediterranean in recent weeks.

The Naval Service’s flagship LÉ Eithne had a record-breaking day yesterday when she picked up a further 647 refugees who were packed into two dangerously unsafe wooden barges.

The number of lives saved by the Naval Service flagship LÉ Eithne passed the 2,000 mark after she picked up her largest number of migrants in any one day of operations off the coast of Libya.

As the morning sunshine slides across a memorial tomorrow morning in West Cork, a shadow on a sundial will mark the moment a jumbo jet was blasted out off the sky off the south-west coast.

Students are the beating heart of a university, mourners who gathered at University College Dublin to remember the victims of the Berkeley tragedy heard.

The wife of a LÉ Eithne crew member has described him and his colleagues as heroes in an emotional email posted to Facebook post.

Naval Service flagship LÉ Eithne has saved more migrants’ lives after picking up the occupants of a small fibreglass boat who had run out of food, water and fuel five days into an attempted crossing of the Mediterranean Sea.

IT is impossible to say that the 649 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean by LÉ Eithne and her crew since the vessel left Cork 19 days ago, would not have survived had the vessel not been in the area.

A navy officer has described the distressing scenes he and his crewmates witnessed when they came across leaking vessels crammed with scared migrants who had no lifejackets, little fuel, and no provisions.

LÉ Eithne was steaming towards the Sicilian port of Palermo last night with 410 migrants she had rescued from the Mediterranean Sea.

The Naval Service’s flagship LÉ Eithne is today steaming close to Gibraltar on her way to the Mediterranean, where she is being deployed to save migrants from drowning.

The Cabinet has approved sending LÉ Eithne on a mission to prevent migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean.

The LÉ Eithne is expected to be given the order to deploy in the Mediterranean after next Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, at which Minister for Defence Simon Coveney will almost certainly get approval from colleagues to send it on a humanitarian mission to save drowning refugees.

The dual return of a prestigious sporting event and hotel, allied to the continued pursuit of culinary perfection were the driving forces behind the success of the Cork Business Awards quarterly winners.

Cultural colonisation takes place in the subtlest and, at the same time, the most forceful way. We are all agents of that never-ending evolution, nearly every decision we make is influenced by the predominant force in popular culture — and today that is America, or at the very least, the English-speaking world.

An 83-year-old army veteran celebrated his wedding day in his old uniform to make his new bride’s wishes come true.

Two neighbouring families have, in an overnight challenge, run almost the length of Co Cork to raise funds for the oncology department in the Mercy University Hospital.

O’Callaghan Walshe Seafood Restaurant, North Square, Rosscarbery, Co Cork, 023-8848125, ocallaghanwalshe.com, fun.fish@hotmail.com

Tuam Stars are the most celebrated club in Galway football.

“You don’t volunteer for this kind of job — you do it when you have to,” said octogenarian Peter Riordan, Ireland’s National Carer of the Year.

Dzogchen Beara is a welcoming retreat centre for anyone needing some direction in life, says Siobhán Cronin.

MARRIED men can be prone to exaggeration. Especially with a pint in our hands and reminiscing about the days when we were single.

HIS voice catching with grief at the beginning and end, Enda Kenny was determined to hold things together for the eulogy so he could make his mother proud one final time.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s mother Eithne died proud knowing her son had reached the pinnacle of political life, her funeral has been told.

FIVE crewmen missing off a sunken cargo ship have been the focus of a large-scale air and sea search operation in the Irish Sea.

IT WAS supposed to be a night of celebration for Fine Gael, and Enda Kenny insisted that was exactly what it would be.