Both teams were already assured of progress to the Harty Cup quarter-finals thanks to comprehensive beatings of Castletroy College earlier on, but it was Christians who sent out the loudest message of intent at Bansha as they powered their way to another heavy victory.

"She was allowed to be herself here."

The parents of a 26-year-old Irishman who is presumed dead after disappearing in the waters of a river in Canada are enduring every family’s worst nightmare, a memorial service has been told.

Measuring 5’ 6” and walking with a stick, David Mahon had told gardaí he “wasn’t built for prison”.

The stepfather of missing teenager Amy Fitzpatrick told gardaí that her brother had walked into the knife he was holding, his murder trial has heard.

The Irish Cancer Society’s popular Colour Dash is coming to Sligo for the first time, it was announced today.

Retailer Argos has raised €80,000 for the Irish Cancer Society, since the launch of its two year partnership in March last year.

Public condemnation of the Irish Cancer Society for scrapping a financial hardship scheme for cancer patients led Health Minister Leo Varadkar to urge people to continue supporting the charity.

The Cork Film Festival is celebrating filmmakers from the Rebel County as part of its 60th anniversary year.

Irish men with prostate cancer now have a four-in-five chance of being alive in 10 years’ time but new research shows they worry about feeling ill and intimacy problems.

Irish teenagers taking on the ‘big tobacco’ industry have the power to become the country’s first tobacco-free generation, a campaign group has claimed.

Would You Believe? The Tuam Babies, Sunday, RTÉ One.

With almost 600 people diagnosed with cancer every week, demands for support and services are putting the Irish Cancer Society under increasing pressure.

As Daffodil Day 2015 launches today, The Irish Cancer Society say funds are needed more than ever as the demand for support and services increases.

A national clinical study to improve outcomes for breast cancer patients has been rolled out.

Two youth groups from Cork have taken top awards at the Irish Cancer Society’s X-HALE Film Festival, an annual event designed to combat smoking among young people.

The percentage of school-aged children smoking in Ireland has almost halved since 1998 and the likelihood is that the country will be effectively smoke-free by 2025.

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Suspected murder victim Sandra Collins would have paid a total of £295 sterling had she gone ahead with her plans to terminate her pregnancy in Britain, it emerged yesterday.

Theatre: The Walworth Farce

Alan O’Riordan on the quest by a Cork collector to remaster rare works by John McCormack

A Georgian mantlepiece is among the top draws for Des O’Sullivan this week.

Our Lady’s Templemore 1-15 CBS High School, Clonmel 0-9

Just one in two women in some areas of the country are availing of free mammograms, it has emerged.

Reaching 100 years as a golf club is not a rare achievement but it is no mean feat either, and the hope is that longevity is a sign of an institution that has earned its success on and off the course.

Majella O’Donnell, who is to begin chemotherapy tomorrow, is to shave her head live on television in a bid to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society.

Women who stop taking breast cancer drugs because of unbearable side-effects are almost three times more likely to have their cancer return.

Under-resourced public health services have asked the Society of St Vincent de Paul to help out.

After its annual Daffodil Day collection turned into a washout earlier this year, the Irish Cancer Society has clawed back almost two thirds of donation losses from the event.

FOR a man who is regarded as quintessentially Cork, thanks to his ’70s rendition of The Boys of Fairhill, it comes as a surprise to hear that the genteel county of Kent is one of Jimmy Crowley’s favourite places to hang out.

More than 500 people have benefited from a centre set up to advise people affected or concerned about cancer.

The Irish Film Board is helping writers and directors realise their vision, writes Don O’Mahony

Dublin plays host to a three-day festival of international actor-led theatre next week, says Pádraic Killeen

The demise of the golf membership entrance fee in Ireland has become a reality as we head into 2013, writes Brian Keogh

Industrial action by Siptu next Monday will close the country’s three main airports causing travel chaos, Dublin Airport Authority has warned.

In one way or another all of our lives are shaped by belief or disbelief.