Each week we profile one of the runners taking part in the ‘Irish Examiner’ Cork City Marathon this June

Eli Lilly’s experimental Alzheimer’s treatment failed to slow the progression of the neurodegenerative disease, yet another setback to drugmakers and researchers who continue to seek a way to treat one of the most feared ailments in the world. The shares fell as much as 14%.

From its earliest inception, organic farming has always focused on re-circulating resources back into the farm. 

On a recent visit to Iraq, Maeve Higgins realised how important comedy is to people in difficult situations, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Michael Douglas is in talks to return for the 'Ant-Man' sequel.

A man has confessed to shooting dead a four-year-old girl while arguing with her father in the US city of Albuquerque.

What's on telly? UEFA and benefits and movies galore.

The moving of the Laurels to the early part of the year caused much consternation when the decision was made in early 2015, and its current residence will re main under scrutiny for as long as it remains a pre-summer date.

The real-life voice cast of Telltale's The Walking Dead videogame will be at Comic Con 2015 for a live read of season one

A four-year-old girl who broke her left wrist after falling from a slide in a Dublin crèche has been awarded €15,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

Prayers were offered at the funeral Mass for Johnny Ryan for all who have lost their lives in farm accidents over the years.

A large crowd is expected to pour into the parish of Clara, Co Kilkenny, tomorrow for the funeral Mass of Johnny Ryan, father of All-Ireland winning captain Lester Ryan, who died in a farm accident on Wednesday.

The GAA world was plunged into shock yesterday by the death of the father of Kilkenny’s All-Ireland winning hurling captain in a fatal farm accident.

A farmer killed in a work place accident in Kilkenny has been named locally as the father of All-Ireland hurling winning captain Lester Ryan.

Kerry Katona is planning her sixth child.

Irish actor Aidan Turner tells Ed Power how his role as Kili the dwarf became part of a major storyline in The Hobbit trilogy.

AFTER 17 years immersed in directing The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit films, Peter Jackson’s immediate plans for a future without the fantasy series are firmly grounded in reality.

"Can't have one without the other"

Manchester United stepped in to tell three-year-old Lilly Rae Doyle it’s ok to wear blue after seeing this video of her sobbing in her new school uniform.

Most Peculiar held off the late challenge of Draco to claim the €100,000 Tote Pick6 Guarantee Maiden Hurdle, the opening event on day three of the Galway Festival.

A woman has died in a house fire believed to have been started by a cigarette.

A mother of two has died in a house fire, which is believed to have started by a lit cigarette.

Six celeb chefs — 12 questions. Lily Higgins, Trish Deseine (recent winner at the prestigious Gourmand Awards), Yotam Ottolenghi and others reveal their dream dinner party guests, memorable meals — and their favourite recipes to create the perfect summer menu to Joe McNamee.

After months of exciting plotting and planning, the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Litfest got underway at the Grain Store in Ballymaloe last night.

Her sisters are famed for cooking and TV, but Ettie Higgins is back in Syria, a nation in a perpetual chaos, says Noel Baker

The girl from the Lone Star State has become a star in her own right, after being crowned the 2013 Rose of Tralee.

A YOUNG cub, in any professional sloth, is expected to jump through hoops before becoming selective about how they earn their honey.

Specially trained bloodhounds could help the State save tens of thousands of euro during missing person searches, one of the world’s top search dog trainers has said.

Evangeline Lilly's character in 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' is "dangerous".

Kate Price thinks she has become a "trend-setter" since designing her own wedding dress.

Katie Price thinks she has become a "trend-setter" since designing her own wedding dress.

Things go bump in the night, repeatedly, in Andy Muschietti’s unsettling ghost story.

KERRY Katona (annoyingly for some) remains famous for being famous.

A Donegal businessman has offered a €5,000 reward for information leading to the prosecution of those who attacked 96-year-old Margaret ‘Greta’ Lilly.

Thieves who attacked a 96-year-old woman stole a “substantial” amount of money she was saving to have new windows put in her home.

The year she was born Ireland was part of the United Kingdom and King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra visited the country.

‘Glee’ meets ‘Bring It On’ with the sassy swagger of ‘Clueless’ in Jason Moore’s unabashedly feel-great musical comedy about an all-girl a cappella group hoping to pitch slap their well-rehearsed rivals at a national singing competition.

A youth has pleaded guilty to an animal cruelty and torture charge after a homeless man’s pet rabbit was thrown into Dublin’s River Liffey last year.

A Dublin man accused of throwing a homeless man’s pet rabbit into the River Liffey has pleaded not guilty to an animal cruelty and torture charge.