Men die six years younger than women and are more often victims of suicide. Rita de Brún meets the Australian trying to change all that.

The Jungle Book 4/5

FIRSTLY, we had Navan man now it’s Cavan man. Kevin McGahern is pulling on the comedy jersey for his county, but he’s not about to go all nostalgic about the home turf.

Munster head coach Anthony Foley will unleash his southern hemisphere imports on the Ospreys at the Liberty Stadium tomorrow, naming Aussie second row Mark Chisholm and New Zealand backs Tyler Bleyendaal and Francis Saili in the side for a crucial Guinness Pro12 clash.

Former All Blacks rugby star Jerry Collins and his wife Alana Madill have died after their car was hit by a bus on a road outside the southern French town of Beziers.

The Supreme Court this week made a ruling that impacts hugely on evidence gathering by gardaí. Cormac O’Keeffe reports on a landmark decision 

Liam Sammon ventured into a well-known GAA pub in Killarney on Saturday evening to catch the Dublin-Derry league encounter.

Lance Bass has got married.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan insists junior cycle reforms will go ahead as she prepares to re-enter talks with teacher unions over opposition to marking their own pupils.

*NSYNC are ecstatic following their successful reunion at the MTV Video Music Awards last night.

We hear much about the magic of sport, but after a week like this might it be worth reflecting on what has become of that other great sport of magic?

Sylvester Stallone won't direct 'The Expendables' sequel.

I WOKE up the other morning, turned around, and remembered he wasn’t there. Of course, he wasn’t there. He killed himself seven months ago.

IT’S not on the air yet. It’s not shot yet. There’s no pilot yet. There might not even be a script yet.

IT’S not on the air yet. It’s not shot yet. There’s no pilot yet. There might not even be a script yet.

Pat McGrath of Waterford (father of current stars Ken and Eoin) and Johnny Crowley of Cork, five-times All-Ireland winner, met many times on the field of play. They were reunited again this week ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland semi-final between Cork and Waterford, in the company of Diarmuid O’Flynn.

A LETTER to Santa Claus sent by a three-year-old girl 45 years ago has been found, lodged in the chimney of a house.

It's been 15 years since Cork and Galway met in an All-Ireland hurling final, the year of the double and the day Joe Cooney had a first half to dream about. However the second half belonged to Cork and Tomás Mulcahy.

Joe Connolly and Joe Hennessy joined forces against the Examiner’s Tony Considine and Diarmuid O’Flynn in an epic golf match in Nenagh Golf Club.

The family accusing Michael Jackson of child molestation and other crimes is trying to pull “the biggest con of their careers,” the pop star’s lead lawyer told jurors today in the second day of closing arguments in the trial.

Ten aspiring chefs are preparing to battle it out in the kitchen as the new series of Hell’s Kitchen gets under way tonight.

YOU can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time.

POOR old Giscard d’Estaing. There he was with his nice draft European constitution all ready for the Thessaloniki summit on June 20, and what happened?

Burt Reynolds is to guest star in an episode of The X Files.