First came the baby. Then came the deluge of jokes, gags, memes, photoshops and video bloopers. Here's our roundup of the best.

THE first major protest against the visit of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II passed without incident yesterday as the biggest security operation in the history of the state intensified in advance of the royal arrival tomorrow.

AN IRISH language campaigner has lost his battle to avoid the “institutional harassment” of a Canadian army pledge, which requires him to toast and salute Queen Elizabeth II.

Helen Mirren refused to accept free plastic surgery and Botox injections ahead of the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

YOUR business columnist Brian O’Mahony (Irish Examiner, January 8) says if, as an example of cross-border co-operation, IKEA were to go to the North instead of Ballymun, it could be a gesture of goodwill at a delicate time.