"As a father of a child with a serious respiratory lung condition (and) many others like her, I urge the public to please listen to the professionals."

Munchin's included Gordon Wood and Tony Foley, sons of Munster legends Keith and Anthony, in their squad.

Tiger Roll is preparing to bid for a fifth win at the Cheltenham Festival and third successive Grand National.

Midway through his acceptance speech, CIT captain Kieran Murphy declared “we are back where we belong”.

Seven tries, each one brilliantly executed in the course of a game that reflected the competition in the most favourable possible light, featured in St Munchin's 27-24 victory over Limerick rivals Castletroy College.

Christians and Pres will be keen observers of Wednesday's Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup quarter-finals at Market's Field as four colleges bid to join them in the semi-finals.

Five days after arriving in Colombia, Fiona Barry and Keith Ward met a rescue pup called Gracie, who gave them paws for thought, says Paula Burns.

Keith Dalton, 50, from Cherryfield Avenue, Walkinstown, Dublin 12 who was last seen on Wednesday.

One of Ireland’s top ultra-runners has gone the distance to win one of the world’s toughest endurance races.

Samcro made a foot-perfect start to his career over fences on a Down Royal card dominated by his trainer Gordon Elliott.

Alan Gilpin, the under-fire Rugby World Cup tournament director, showed his face in the media room at the International Stadium in Yokohama before yesterday’s crucial World Cup Pool A match between host nation Japan and Scotland.

As he did for the Cork U20 footballers earlier this year, Keith Ricken, now on the sideline with the Carrigtwohill hurlers, is again working the oracle.

Although she is from Watergrasshill, Cork, Emer O’Sullivan’s heart has always been in Tipperary.

A Tuesday morning injury update from Ireland squad communications manager David O Siochain, though, suggested Kearney’s injury was not as bad as first feared.

Upstairs in the Cork Institute of Technology student centre, a picture of the college’s 2009 Sigerson Cup winning team hangs on the wall outside Keith Ricken’s office.

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An Irish father of three who has been granted a 90-day extension while he awaits a decision on his appeal against deportation from the US has returned to work at his small painting firm.

Best was poor in Twickenham last Saturday when Ireland shipped over 50 points to a rampant England side.

Wallabies legend Stephen Larkham wants to bring a more cutting edge to the Munster attack as he embarks on his new role as the province’s Senior Coach.

CJ Stander has already registered one significant achievement this summer after becoming a father for the first time, but he is prepared to sacrifice quality time with his baby daughter in a bid to reach his other main goal: a place in

The only way to know how any so-called geoengineering techniques would affect the climate is to deploy them over several decades on a massive scale, writes Silvia Ribeiro

A Corkman who was arrested last month in a raid by US Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) has said he is "embarrassed for the Government" that a minor drug charge will lead to his deportation from the US.

Former Cork footballer Colm O’Neill sees no reason why five or six of the county’s All-Ireland U20 winning team can’t make the step up to senior level in 2020.

Leaning against the wall outside a bouncing Cork dressing-room, happiness and contentment radiating from the broad smile he’s wearing, Cork U20 captain Peter O’Driscoll conveys his hope that this sensational come-from-behind final victory “will be the start of something”.

Keith Byrne travelled to the US in 2007 on a visa-waiver programme but overstayed his visa, and he subsequently set up his own business in Philadelphia, married an American woman and started a family.

The Cork man who faced deportation from the US has been reunited with his family.

Keith Byrne has had his deportation order frozen and is to be released from prison following an order by a United States federal judge.

He married an American woman in 2009 after overstaying his visa, but failed in his attempts to regularise his status.

The wife of Keith Byrne said that the day her husband was arrested was the "worst thing imaginable" and is now doing everything she can to "get him in front of a judge".

Keith Byrne, originally from Fermoy, was arrested by federal immigration officers last week.

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

Greg Byrne said that his brother has until Friday to sign documentation that would give him a passport to leave the country, but ban him from entering the US for five years.

The American wife of an Irish man who has been threatened with deportation from the USA has said it is “so unfair” that possession of marijuana for personal use charges from “many years ago” are halting his bid for citizenship.

Keith Byrne, a married father of 3 originally from Cork, has lived in the US for 12 years and runs his own business.

Paul McGinley is confident the scheduling issues around next year’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open can be resolved by European and PGA Tour bosses in the coming weeks but admitted it will be a difficult and challenging task and the outcome may be less than perfect.

Mayo manager James Horan said he and his team can’t wait to face Kerry in Fitzgerald Stadium in their opening Super 8 game.

An inspirational dad whose little girl was the reason he started running before she died, is now continuing to race to send other children with disabilities to EuroDisney.

The conversation sparked whilst he appeared as a guest on The Tommy Tiernan over the weekend.

A mother has described to a murder trial the moment her partner was shot dead outside her home seconds after she had taken their five-week-old daughter inside.

A tribute night to The Prodigy frontman Keith Flint aims to raise funds for Pieta House, writes Aileen O’Reilly.