The River Island Design Bursary will give an invaluable insight to the trade, as winning student Caoimhe Hill explains to Carolyn Moore.

Hundreds of families are waiting more than a year to access genetic services in Ireland, it has emerged.

Peugeot has unveiled a four-wheel drive 308 R hatchback model, equipped with a plug-in petrol hybrid unit boasting 500 bhp. It has been presented not as a concept car, but as a production car of the future.

Student Colin Bradley from Mallow, Co Cork, is the main driver behind an initiative at University College Cork he hopes will drive home the message “it’s ok not to feel ok, and it’s absolutely ok to ask for help.”

Anglo Irish Bank's former Company Secretary and Head of Compliance has appeared in court charged with revenue offences.

THE stallholder couldn’t understand a word I was saying.

CONNACHT Rugby chiefs have no plans to seek the use of Galway GAA’s Pearse Stadium if they are playing in the Heineken Cup next season.

TEENAGERS in Cork have come up with a homemade zit-busting cleanser to target pesky spots.

Irish greyhound racing will break new ground next Friday at Harold’s Cross when the Gain Feeds Corn Cuchulainn final will be broadcast live around the world via the RTE website.

LIAM BRADY says the FAI need not look beyond Marco Tardelli when Giovanni Trapattoni’s spell in charge of the Republic of Ireland comes to an end.

The National Assets Management Agency (NAMA) has completed the transfer of the first batch of loans from Anglo Irish Bank.

The Head of the International Monetary Fund is urging Greece to remain calm and not to fear its intervention to aid its economic crisis.

The Head of the Labour Relations Commission says the board of Bank of Ireland should face questioning in the Oireachtas to explain the events of the past year.

THE total tillage area in Ireland has reduced by 20% this year compared with that sown in 2008 due to difficult weather and poor market conditions, Teagasc revealed yesterday at its Tillage Open Day at Knockbeg Research Farm, Carlow.

OFFICIAL recognition of the Gaelic Players’ Association is a certainty in the near future, GAA President Nickey Brennan confirmed last night.

CASH could be extinct in five years, according to a survey released by Halifax.

HEAD OF THE POSSE is the nap choice to lead home 15 rivals in the Winter Festival 2008 Maiden Hurdle at Fairyhouse this afternoon.

WE wish to respond to Cork airport management’s letter (September 20) in which they claimed they have not raised charges on the Ryanair routes from Cork to Glasgow and East Midlands. This claim is simply untrue.

Russia’s manager Guus Hiddink has accused England’s players of “panicking under pressure” and giving his team the encouragement to beat them in the vital Euro 2008 qualifier in Moscow last Wednesday.

The abolishment of the minor and Under-21 grades and the introduction of an Under-19 championship at inter-county level was one of the key issues which emerged from the report of the GAA's Player Burnout Taskforce launched yesterday at Croke Park.

AN €11.4 MILLION aid package to support Palestinian refugees was today announced by the Irish Government.

UPSKILL or be left behind — that’s the challenge to thousands of workers in the high-tech pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector as Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) prepares to launch a range of specially tailored courses.

Research carried out by the National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD) found the majority of people in Ireland would approve of using cannabis for medicinal reasons.

I REFER to Michael Brennan’s article headlined ‘Aer Lingus pledges fare play for customers’ (Irish Examiner, August 26).