Dolores Grace, who tragically lost her sports-mad son to cancer has revealed that joining a gym helped her to cope with her grief after his death.

Revenue officers have seized over 65,000 unstamped cigarettes and €1,530 in cash in Cork City.

Hollywood royalty Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes have shares a picture of the latest addition to their family.

From the Three Stooges and The Smiths, to opera that literally made him sick, Enda Walsh tells Des O'Driscoll about some of his cultural touchstones.

Music is believed to provide children with Down syndrome lots of benefits. Now UCC researchers are putting that theory to the test, writes Áilín Quinlan.

The aptly named Field of Dreams is an arm of Down Syndrome Cork and focused on supporting adults with Down syndrome in the region.

The Dublin student from Skerries left Olly Murs and the rest of the judges stunned with her performance of Teardrop by Massive Attack during the blind audition stages.

100 years ago, Constance Markievicz received a letter confirming her return as MP for Dublin St Patrick’s. Ireland’s first elected female politician was in prison at the time, and the letter was addressed: “Dear Sir”. Robert Hume investigates her colourful life

It is Christmas Eve and Santa and his team are getting ready to deliver gifts to children all around the world. If you are wondering just how he does it, you are not alone; here are some of the questions sent in by children with equally curious minds. The first question comes from four-year-old Harper.

Katie Taylor looks to take another step towards dominating women’s professional boxing tonight as she defends her IBF and WBA World Lightweight titles against WBC World super-featherweight champion, Eva Wahlstrom at Madison Square Garden.

Diane O’Connor has mined the breastfeeding experience for her stand-up comedy show, writes Nuala Woulfe

Dermot Bolger felt strange portraying himself in his latest novel but, he tells Sue Leonard, it was a necessary bridge into his second novel about the extraordinary Sheila Fitzgerald

Show organisers have eye and ear for the right musical talent to match the region’s prize farm animals, writes Denis Lehane

The parents of 14-year-old Ana (Anastasia) Kriégel have asked people to bring “sparkle and colour” to their daughter’s funeral.

Cork’s city coroner has paid tribute to a garda who, over the last 14 years, has helped thousands of grieving families through the often difficult coronial process.

The special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 US election has charged an attorney with lying to federal investigators about his interactions with a former Trump campaign official.

The 20-dog unit has been involved in seizures totalling €79m over three years

Last night, RTÉ premiered The Doireann Project on its online player.

This question was sent in by seven-year-old Eoin, from Galway.

The ISPCA is appealing for new homes for a number of cats currently in the care of the ISPCA National Animal Centre in Longford.

A letter written a day before the Titanic sank by one of the disaster's victims has sold for a record-breaking £126,000 (€141,000) at auction.

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Eva Desmond had to fight for life from the moment she was born, and now her parents are raising money for the neo-natal unit that helped her win that battle.

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A spine-chillinging unsettling and darkly hilarious debut.

Helen O’Callaghan reports on a new autism assistance app.

The heartbroken mum of a young footballer who died from lymphoma on the eve of his 21st birthday said she thought she was “a crazy woman on a rant” when she wrote a Facebook post, which has since gone viral, criticising the Irish Cancer Society’s shock ad campaign.

James Joyce, Seamus Heaney and Thomas McCarthy are among the poets assembled in a wonderful book of writings inspired by music, says Alan O’Riordan

Ciara Skelly, 21, was born with epilepsy, autism, and cerebral palsy.

The national ploughing championships were held not too far away in Screggan during the week but around Cloona, Johnstownbridge, Kilglass, Broadford, Carbury and the general west of Kildare, the most important ploughing occasion of the year takes place tomorrow week.

Eva Longoria-Baston wore a sunny design from her new collection for The Limited, an Ohio company, to the launch event in New York. 

With Father’s Day tomorrow, well-known faces look back with Vicki Notaro to their memories of the day they became dads.

Interstitial cystitis is often misunderstood, writes Sharon Ní Chonchúir.

Jose Mourinho is expected to give evidence at an employment tribunal brought by former Chelsea first-team doctor Eva Carneiro after she reportedly turned down an offer of £1.2m to settle.