A play inspired by her parents helped Marion Wyatt come to terms with the beatings she received from her father, writes Colette Sheridan

Des O’Driscoll shares the latest news from the world of showbiz

We bet you’ve never seen a dog with its own guide dog before.

The Cork tenor is celebrating a quarter of a century as a professional singer, writes Dan Buckley

A 33-year-old man has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of a 25-year-old who was stabbed to death at an apartment late on Thursday night.

The title character in Niamh Boyce’s novel The Herbalist causes upheaval when he sets up his stall in the square of a sleepy Irish market town in the 1930s.

A Kerry teenager’s message of life will live on in Ireland’s first suicide resource centre.

Singer Finbar Furey has paid tribute to his family and medical team after suffering a health scare.

In a true example of cultural exchange, a team from Maryland in the US tried their hands at hurling in Cork City’s Mardyke arena yesterday to herald a series of agreements between the two cities.

Ulster Bank has appointed a receiver to the property company owned by Westlife star Shane Filan.

Kilmeen Drama Group were worthy winners of the RTE All-Ireland Drama Festival in 2011.

KNOCKNA FINBAR, unlucky when failing to land the odds last time, can set the record straight by taking the seventh race at Youghal tonight.

After college the Dubliner moved to Spain, where he lived for six years, teaching English as a foreign language.

Plans by Westlife star Shane Filan to build a nursing home in Sligo have been given the green light.

A man has been jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court today after pleading guilty to the murder of another man in Clontarf in Dublin last year.

FINBAR WRIGHT should feel at home when the singer entertains those attending the AIB gala dinner in the INEC on October 9.

The Munster Under-20 side to play Connacht at Dooradoyle on Friday evening (7.30pm) is as follows:

Mourners at the funerals of a garda and firefighter killed in the line of duty today heard calls for people to take greater care on the roads.

Mourners at the funerals of a garda and firefighter killed in the line of duty today heard calls for people to take greater care on the roads.

DOCTORS at the country’s biggest hospital are considering an all-out strike in a row over indemnity cover which could spread to other hospitals.

IT’S a sign of the times when 24-year-old Karol Slattery is described as one of the senior members on the Offaly football team.

WESTLIFE star Shane Filan broke innumerable teenage hearts yesterday when he signed up for the wedding band.

More than 350 guests were at one of Ireland’s most exclusive hotels tonight for the latest wedding party to feature one of the Westlife boy band.

Caroline O'Doherty observes sadness and defiance