Irish climber Séamus Lawless fell because of a freak wind according to his friend and team leader Noel Hanna.

A memorial service is to be on Monday for a father-of-one who died just hours after summiting the world’s highest mountain.

The search for missing father of one and Trinity College Professor Séamus Lawless who had been missing since falling on Mount Everest nine days ago has been called off.

There are not many film festivals which incorporate a beach-clean, but the Fastnet Film Festival in Schull has always liked to take a novel approach to the silver screen.

The search for Mr Lawless, from Bray, Co Wicklow has now turned into a recovery operation in an area known as the death zone where oxygen levels are very low.

Indian climber Ravi Thakar was found dead inside his tent on Mount Everest at 7,900m Camp Four in Nepal last Friday morning. Severe altitude sickness is being blamed for his death.

The search for the Wicklow man missing on Mount Everest won't resume until late next week.

Paris may be mourning after the Notre Dame cathedral fire, but for a little girl from Kerry, it provided the experience of a lifetime last weekend.

A 47-year-old man with 20 previous criminal convictions who sued after he claimed he was knocked off his bicycle by a car which failed to stop has been awarded €20,000 by the High Court.

Many communities remain scarred by high levels of unemployment. Kyran Fitzgerald reports that many people could secure jobs if they were provided with the right tools.

A mother of six who claims she was injured when the ceiling in her council house allegedly fell in on top of her has sued in the High Court.

Skibbereen Town Council paid €170,000 yesterday to a boy who sustained a serious injury to his left foot when he was struck by a council truck near his home.

An English-language teacher who smashed into a wall while doing a bear-crawl at a gym class settled her action for compensation from the fitness centre yesterday.

The mother of a young man killed while travelling as a passenger in a stolen car eight years ago has been awarded €72,000.

A teacher who ran into a wall while doing a bear-crawl at a gym class said yesterday: “I don’t think it is fair that I came to the gym, got injured, and now I see my bills stacking up.”

A quality controller suing a meat company for a back injury withdrew his case yesterday, after the judge gave the parties time for a further examination of videos of the plaintiff’s activities.

A quality controller suing a meat company for a back injury was shown on video carrying a fridge and furniture at car boot sales.

A nine-year-old boy, who broke his leg after falling off training goalposts at Mayfield soccer club, has been awarded €55,000 compensation.

A six-year-old boy was savagely attacked by a Jack Russell terrier and left with facial scarring and has now been awarded just over €100,000 at the High Court in Cork.

An award of €900,000 was made yesterday to the family of a 42-year-old man fatally injured while training for a charity cycle in Kerry in aid of people with Down Syndrome.

A 20- year old man who was abused as a child by a neighbour who threatened to slit the throats of his parents if he told, has been awarded €200,000 by the High Court.

A woman who broke her wrist when she allegedly tripped on stairs at the well known Lillie's Bordello nightclub has settled her High Court action.

A woman who broke her wrist when she allegedly tripped on stairs at the well known Lillie's Bordello night club has sued in the High Court.

Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington is retracing the footsteps in the US of her campaigning grandmother, who was widowed in the Easter Rising.

A young woman has been awarded €69,000 for injuries she received when a powerboat in which she was a passenger collided with a bridge on the River Shannon.

A warehouse operative's legal action for back injuries allegedly sustained in a workplace accident has been withdrawn after photos of him on a skiing holiday and motorcycling in Europe were shown in the High Court.

2016 was a pivotal year for construction activity in Cork and nationwide, up by 15% for the year ended, while further growth of up to 20% is expected locally and nationally in 2017, say international asset managers and professional advisory firm AECOM.

The HSE has made a settlement offer of €105,000 to a young woman whose baby boy died in hospital hours after he was born.

A man suffered life-threatening injuries after he was trapped when a JCB teleporter toppled attempting to lift a heavy shuttering panel on to a building site. He has been awarded €215,000 in the High Court.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a four-year-old boy entering a gorilla's exhibit at Cincinnati Zoo and the animal being shot dead to protect the child.

A woman has been awarded €85,000 for injuries she received after she was covered “from head to toe” by varnish when a tin lid fell off as she was scanning it at a self-service checkout in a DIY store.

The Democratic frontrunner faces a showdown with Republicans in congressional probe, writes Bette Browne

The former head of security at Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper empire has threatened to blow the whistle with “shock” revelations about the company.

A man has been jailed for sending “grossly threatening” text messages to his ex-girlfriend after she started seeing someone else.

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THE artistic director of Cork’s Everyman, Julie Kelleher, is making her directorial debut at the venue with a production of Brian Friel’s Lovers.

A coroner has issued a safety warning to scuba divers following a double drowning tragedy off the Irish coast last summer.

The first promos for Pan were pretty enough in their own way but really lacking in the magical flair we expected from director Joe Wright - who made Hanna, Anna Karenina and Atonement. Thankfully, the fantasy is in full bloom in this new trailer.

Anne Enright’s latest novel The Green Road is set on that great Irish battleground — the family. She spoke to Caroline O’Doherty about the institution and all its foibles — and trying to be an inspiring teacher.