A former Uefa director who went missing for two months has been found safe.

Some 200,000 people care for loved-ones in Ireland. Among them is Jack Brennan, an 84-year-old who cares for his beloved wife, Bernie. She has Alzheimer’s disease and cannot even perform the most basic tasks.

An Post has today issued a stamp to mark the centenary of what became known as apparitions of Fatima.

It’s 2009, summer, and Ireland stands on the brink of catastrophic recession, or, as the very unreliable narrator of Ithaca puts it: it was ‘the summer after all the money disappeared’. 

Pope to make pilgrimage to the Portuguese town for the centenary of the Virgin Mary’s ‘apparition’, writes Barry Hatton.

Update: A gay couple who stepped aside from singing at mass after getting abuse from a parishioner are to return to the choir.

The power of kindness will preside in North Cork next week when Fermoy undertakes its third annual Friendship Week.

A flood relief candidate hopes to be Cork South West’s very first female TD, says Catherine Shanahan

Crowds await the arrival of loved ones returning from duty in the Mediterranean Sea from thieir humanitarian mission. 

Chinese New Year is of particular significance to the thousands of adopted Chinese children living in Ireland and their parents writes 

ACTRESS and singer, Jacinta Whyte, says there is not enough work in Ireland for young people to build a career in musical theatre. 

Just as it did with Riverdance 20 years ago, Ireland looks set to take the world of dance by storm, but this time it features the footwork and skill of young dance crew, Nasty by Nature.

To celebrate Cork Craft Week, Louise Roseingrave goes glass blowing and channels Demi Moore with a spot of pottery-making.

The figments of your child’s imagination can be brought wonderfully to life as soft toys and cushions this Christmas — by an enterprising mum who makes original keepsakes from upcycled clothes.

From Upton Park to Páirc Uí Chaoimh — that’s the road Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan is beginning this weekend.

A LIFELONG fisherman who celebrated his 64th birthday on December 30 is feared drowned after the small boat he was fishing on sank off the south-east coast at Duncannon, Co Wexford, yesterday morning.

ONE of the country’s foremost authorities on the circus, Patrick (Pa) Houlihan, was laid to rest in his native Killorglin, Co Kerry, on Saturday.

Noirín's mother thinks she could quit the 'Big Brother' house, it has been revealed.

“I CAN never get into a relationship again. I can’t trust men. I have two little girls, I can’t trust men whatsoever around them. I’m always overprotective and paranoid. I don’t have confidence around men.”

SLEEPING on sofas, going from place to place and homeless, young Jacinta McAuliffe was struggling to keep her life going.

The parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann will make a personal pilgrimage to the holiest site in Portugal today to pray for a miracle.

WIZARD weaved his magic to claim Corn Na Feile at Abbeyfeale yesterday.

Welsh police have launched a new bid to trace an Irish nun who disappeared in Wales 27 years ago.

Mel Gibson is planning a new film about the three children who claimed they saw a vision of the Virgin Mary at Fatima in Portugal.

Mel Gibson's follow-up to his controversial The Passion of the Christ could be about three children who said they saw a vision of the Virgin Mary.

Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions in Portuguese town of Fatima, has died at 97.

THIS month being traditionally the month of the Rosary, I think we would do well to pray the Rosary from the heart.