Tears flowed freely as the heartbroken sisters of the teenager killed in a car crash on the northside of Cork city last week promised that her memory will never die.

Should we be putting haemorrhoid cream around our eyes? Short answer... Absolutely not.

Alner was seriously injured in a car crash in 2007, an accident which left him paralysed and in need of a wheelchair, but continued to train under a joint licence with his wife, Sally, until 2010.

Fr Ray Kelly miraculously survived to dance another day on Dancing With The Stars tonight.

The saying ‘a dog’s for life, not just for Christmas’ may be well worn, but it is still failing to resonate with people, meaning there are hundreds of dogs and cats out there looking to be rehomed. Pet lover Susan O’Shea spoke to a number of rescue shelters to find out exactly what’s involved in rehoming and that would-be pet owners need to keep in mind

It’s January and Blue Monday - the most depressing day of the year – is almost upon us.

Over eight out of 10 leading voices in Ireland’s marine industry are confident about the growth potential for Ireland’s marine economy.

Club captain Derek Pender is pleased to have Bohemiams “back where they belong” in Europe before he hangs up his boots after Sligo Rovers visit Dalymount Park tonight.

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women in Ireland, with one in eight women diagnosed during their lifetime.

A teenager who saved two friends from drowning has been hailed a hero.

A tented village offers a ‘safe haven’ for those who want to avoid Cork City’s homeless shelters, writes Eoin English.

The hate comments got so intense that she was forced to offer a truce this morning on-air.

Fiona Kirwan, Director of Nursing, Beacon Hospital, Sandyford

The High Court has approved a lump sum payment of €2.5m along with annual rest-of-life payments for a 13-year-old girl with cerebral palsy in final settlement of her action over the circumstances of her birth in Dublin's Coombe Hospital.

Communications firm Edelman has promoted Emma Williams, Jennifer Hyland and David Callaghan, who have been appointed as directors on foot of significant new business wins.

Margaret Jennings meets cancer survivor Jennifer Sweeney, who describes how a one-to-one fitness class helps to keep her fighting fit aged 74.

The health and well being of Jennifer Walsh, placed by the HSE in a nursing home in 2017, is deteriorating, the High Court heard today.

"While the surgeon was down there – job done"

Hi Jennifer, my 16-year-old daughter has very bad skin at the moment and it is really starting to affect her confidence.

How do you know when it’s over? In sport, every sportsperson has to keep trying to improve. Someone sets a standard - for me that was AP McCoy - and that was the level you had to try to achieve. When he retired, all of a sudden you realise you had to try to stay ahead of the younger jockeys coming up behind you.

After 24 very good years, yesterday I bowed out after winning the Punchestown Gold Cup on Kemboy.

The idea of animal rights means many different things to many different people, but there is a consensus around wanton animal cruelty. The industrialisation of farming makes it an ever more challenging issue.

Jennifer Rock talks family, the Nerd Network and how to love your skin, writes Ciara McDonnell

“I get up at 7.30am every morning and work down on the family farm and I keep going until ten at night, no problem.”

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

A design retrospective informed by transatlantic journeys, serendipitous meetings, recession, and a whole host of plot twists launches next week at the National Museum of Ireland, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

A young girl who was awarded €550,000 after 'tram surfing' on the Luas line in Dublin is afraid to leave her house after abuse from Internet trolls.

Chatshow king Graham Norton is to team up with one of the stars from the hit TV series The Young Offenders to host a special fundraiser in a west Cork village.

The parents of 14-year-old Ana (Anastasia) Kriégel have asked people to bring “sparkle and colour” to their daughter’s funeral.

Everybody is talking about ‘West Cork’, the podcast delving into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Marjorie Brennan spoke to the couple behind it, and the backlash they had feared as they return to the area this summer for the literary festival.

We’ve beaten the best in the Six Nations — now it’s time to be world beaters.

Carol O’Callaghan explores the ever-evolving Irish design collection at the National Museum of Ireland.

Cork native Conor Wall tells Colm O’Connor about the world’s newest GAA club — in Cambodia

Will Robbie and his wise men deliver a fairytale winter wonderland or will it turn in to the nightmare before Christmas?

A social worker was found not guilty yesterday of getting monthly child support payments from a mother of five whose children were in care and did not pass these payments on to the foster carers.

A social worker got monthly child support payments from a mother of five whose children were in care and did not pass these payments on to the foster carers, it was claimed at a trial yesterday.

A right-wing extremist suspected in the shooting rampage that wounded six Africans in central Italy was "lucid and determined, aware of what he had done" and exhibited no remorse for his actions, an official said.

Meet the faces of 2018 — the emerging talents who’ll soon be seen on a screen or at a venue near you. From cinema and TV to music and fashion, we profile the new names reaching for success in 2018, writes Esther McCarthy.

Helen O’Callaghan talks to Jennifer Zamparelli about how baby number two will fit in to the 2fm presenter’s hectic life

Professional rugby player Donncha O’Callaghan has played for Munster, Ireland and the Lions and has recently renewed his contract with Worcester Warriors. He will bow out of the pro-game

A prisoner and convicted drug dealer who claims he has incurable brain cancer is campaigning to be released early to have treatment at home.

A mother of five found dead in a hotel room in Galway earlier this week was the “very essence of life” and a much-loved parent, grandmother, and childminder, says the priest in her parish of Donoughmore, Co Cork.