Holidays should be mandatory for people with families and instead of just a week they should be a month long. 

WORLD VISION: Through its ‘Sponsor a Child’ programme, World Vision works with communities worldwide on projects to provide clean water, healthcare, and education and to improve farming methods.

Protecting from danger and providing companionship — it’s all in a day’s work for Layla’s autism assistance dog, writes Mary Hogan

“THERE’S another one down here that we could go to,” said Fionn’s uncle. “This one will be too crowded.”

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The head of research at the Irish Cancer Society has praised the designer of immune cell therapy which was used to reverse leukaemia in a one-year-old girl, and said it demonstrates how important such research is.

In the early 1960s, a member of my family touched a star. 

Helen O’Callaghan speaks to parenting experts about being less than perfect with their own children and the lessons they’ve learned along the way.

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The first of the big European Stadium in Warsaw hosts the Europa League final – with the winners earning a place in next season’s Champions League for the first time.

Raising a child with Down syndrome is not without its highs and lows — with parents saying that support services differ wildly around the country, reports Arlene Harris.

BE IT a sunny or a dark day, the Dublin mountains offer majestic views that are attractive to tourists and locals alike. But the old, winding roads that snake up from the suburbia of Tallaght and Rathfarnham can bring you very quickly into dense forest and desolate and dangerous locations.

Six-year-old Layla Karpuz has been crowned Ireland’s top doodler after winning Google’s third Irish Doodle 4 Google competition.

Jack and Sophie were the most popular baby names in the country last year, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office.

Light From Mars proved strongest as he ran out a comfortable winner of the Best Price Guarantee At coral.co.uk Handicap today, the opening event of York's final meeting this term.

Rock legend Eric Clapton has been invited by North Korean officials to play a gig in the Communist country - to teach its people about the music of the Western world.

Eric Clapton stole model Pattie Boyd away from pal George Harrison because he was jealous of the Beatle's perfect life.

Backstreet boy Nick Carter's mother has denied dumping his pitbull terrier in a Florida animal shelter without the pop star's knowledge.

The Recruit stars Colin Farrell as James Clayton, a computer whizkid who has just topped his class at MIT.

Around 150 people were forced to spend the night wrapped in blankets at Gatwick after a security alert closed the North Terminal.

The Queen wore ear plugs as stars of the rock and pop worlds performed at the Party in the Palace.