Paula Hynes swapped her farm and family in Cork to spend almost three weeks with the Maasai in Kenya for a show on RTÉ tonight, writes Helen O’Callaghan

A nun described as the “Mother Teresa of Cork” has been honoured on her 100th birthday.

Youngsters from the Cork Music Generation joining the New York Brass Band to play Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ on the open-air stage in Emmet Place encapsulated an unofficial theme for this year’s Guinness Cork Jazz festival: The international musical connections the festival has built up over its 40-year history.

Aileen, Iona and Larry could be blowing into the UK and Ireland over coming months.

Its inscribed Brendan and Georgina 26 March 1988.

Patients and former staff of the first general hospital to open in Cork are set for special treatment next weekend at events to mark the 30th anniversary of its closure.

The new Lord Mayor of Cork says he is confident that a “fair compensation package” for the county council can be worked out to secure a city boundary extension.

Futureproof may be set in a circus freak show, but its themes of bodily autonomy have obvious echoes in the wider world, writes Colette Sheridan

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Attending a pre-marriage course is a must if you’re walking down a church aisle, but what

Former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm walked out of a Dublin court smiling yesterday after he was released on bail pending his fraud trial.

Being a TD is not the ideal job for somebody who wants to strike a good work/life balance and it’s much worse for rural TDS who are away from home midweek. Georgina O’Halloran talked to three parents, including two women, about the sacrifices they have made and will make

O’Donnells’ speak out on 1998 murder of daughter in nightclub, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe

There’s a fear around homeschooling that the child will find it hard to fit in at third level. Not true, writes Georgina O’Halloran as she meets families whose children blossomed afterwards

The Derek Davis remembered at his funeral service in Dublin was a big man in so many other ways than the obvious.

Celebrating her 100th birthday with a parachute jump is not enough for South African Georgina Harwood. She plans to make her centenary even more exciting by doing a shark cage dive today.

A 15-year-old boy remains in custody in the UK following the fatal stabbing of a much-loved teacher in her classroom.

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after a long-serving teacher was repeatedly stabbed to death at a school in front of her pupils.

Gardaí are looking for help in tracing 39-year-old Georgina McGarr, who has been missing from Clane, Co Kildare, since yesterday.

Your guide on what to look out for on the box this evening.

The parents of a baby girl who died four days after birth discovered that their daughter’s body was transferred between hospitals by taxi after a newspaper tried to track them down.

Westlife star Nicky Byrne and wife Georgina Ahern - daughter of former Taoiseach Bertie- have welcomed a baby daughter today.

Life is full of disappointments and the bedraggled heroine in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s sweet-yet-slight comedy has suffered her ample share.

A couple have held their wedding for just £1.

Sean Bean has been banned from his local pub.

Would you go into a shop that wanted to charge you a 'just looking' fee?

This week's pick of what's on the box.

FOOD writer and author Biddy White Lennon has always worked hard.

Fifteen years after the longest running inquiry into political corruption in Ireland was established, its final findings have been published.

The Mahon tribunal’s marathon trawl of finances uncovered more than a quarter of a million in unexplained lodgements into accounts linked to the former taoiseach.

Fifteen years after the country's longest running inquiry into political corruption in Ireland was established its final findings have been published.

EVERY YEAR the Georgina Campbell Awards are eagerly awaited by the restaurant industry.

A MAN who used Facebook to groom young teenage boys, some of whom he later molested, was allowed to continue using the social networking site yesterday after a judge decided banning him from it would be unfair.

Judd Trump shattered Chinese dreams as he became the youngest finalist this century at the Betfred.com World Championship.

A JUDGE swore and stormed out of court when she was convicted of failing to control her dangerous dog.

WANNABE models have been warned to be on the lookout for bogus talent scouts posing as representatives from one of Ireland’s top agencies.

Sean Bean is getting divorced for the fourth time.

AUTHOR Cecelia Ahern married her partner David Keoghan at a secret civil ceremony yesterday.

A man has been jailed in the UK and his wife given a suspended sentence for abducting a baby boy who was later found abandoned at the cathedral in Carlow town.

WE’RE all sick of the state of the country at the moment. There’s been nonstop talk of paycuts, how we need to move forward, pull together and share the pain.

Shane Filan has become a father for the third time.