The mother of Shane O'Farrell, who died in a hit and run incident in county Monaghan in 2011, believes a public inquiry into his death is required.

A coroner’s court into the death of Shane O’Farrell was not provided with the full and unredacted versions of statements given by the driver who killed the 23-year-old student.

We've got loads of tips from Sonya Lennon, Rick O'Shea, Neven Maguire, Francis Brennan, Derval O'Rourke and Jen Rock.

CELEBRITY chef Neven Maguire was the first boy in his school in Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim, to do home economics. He is reminiscing about those days with his teacher Mairead McMorrow — “she was an inspiration” — who, in turn, is clearly proud of her famous student.

The Government has been urged to immediately set up a full commission of investigation into the death of Shane O’Farrell after the Dáil voted in favour of such an inquiry.

The National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP) has had to defend its financial position amid concerns about its ongoing viability.

The name Muhammad has seen the biggest rise in popularity in Ireland in 2016, but James and Emily are the most popular names chosen by new parents.

Pope to make pilgrimage to the Portuguese town for the centenary of the Virgin Mary’s ‘apparition’, writes Barry Hatton.

Marie Greene’s son died suddenly of cardiac arrest aged 15. She talks to Margaret Jennings about how she coped with her grief by setting up a support charity for bereaved parents.

The kind of round object that Kerry GAA star Aidan O’Mahony usually grasps rarely glistens more than his five All-Ireland medals but Sunday night was different as he waltzed away with the inaugural glitterball trophy to win the final of the first series of RTÉ’s Dancing With The Stars.

The 36-year-old took to Instagram to announce the news.

The title of this book about a respectable, but sexually unorthodox English family, will prove a let-down for readers hoping for titillating content.

Mixing fact with fiction, a novel about James Joyce and his daughter Lucia claims that they had an incestuous relationship. This is not just nonsense, says Frank MacGabhann, but literary child abuse.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said childminders who work in the home but who are registered with the State's child agency, will be eligible for the new childcare package announced in the Budget yesterday, writes Daniel McConnell of the Irish Examiner.

A severely disabled girl, aged 7, who sued the National Maternity Hospital, Holles St, Dublin, over her care at the time of her birth, has secured an interim payout of €2.4m in settlement of her action.

Safety mesh has been installed along a stretch of exposed quayside in Cork city centre where a toddler fell into the River Lee.

What difference do individuals make to history? This question is explored in Margaret McMillan’s new book, History’s People. 

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Mum of the Year Olive Tumulty has ensured her daughter, Katie, who died last year, will never be forgotten.

In 2010 Clarecastle GAA Club lost another promising young hurler to emigration. But Co Clare’s loss was Germany’s gain as Dean Power ended up in Munich as one of the stars of the city’s renowned Bavarian State Opera.

Rebel Wheelers, a Cork-based sports club for children and young adults with physical disabilities is the chosen charity for Ireland’s second annual Care and Mobility Show.

TAKE out your stopwatch and try the following experiment: phone in your favourite takeaway order and wait for it to arrive.

If there is a "new era" in the Department of Justice — as promised by Minister Frances Fitzgerald when she took over the troubled portfolio — then Lucia O’Farrell can’t see it.

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has ordered the Garda Ombudsman to conduct a public interest inquiry into events surrounding the death of Shane O’Farrell, the 23-year-old man who was killed in a hit and run in 2011.

WHEN Neven Maguire’s twins, Connor and Lucia, celebrated their second birthday in February, they had just emerged out of the most important nutritional window of their lives.

Abi Jackson talks to health experts about their time-out routines.

The House on Parkgate Street and other Dublin stories

They brought 66 balloons to Lucia Cleary’s grave yesterday — one for each month of her life.

Arlene Harris talks to four of Ireland’s finest about menu plans and past disasters.

Lucia Lacarra tells Jo Kerrigan how she was inspired to be a ballerina by a little wind-up jewellery box.

Halloween is around the corner and children will be bombarded with sugary treats.

When the graphic novel, Dotter Of Her Father’s Eyes, won the Costa Biography Award for 2012, it was overdue acceptance of comics’ literary value.

SUPERCHEF Neven Maguire is stirring things up on both sides of the Atlantic.

Mel Gibson was spotted tried to hit on three women in one night earlier this week.

Routinely described as every parents’ nightmare, there is nothing to instil fear in working parents like their children coming to harm at the hands of a minder, au pair or nanny.

The graphic novel has moved far beyond its superhero beginnings, says Don Mahony

A mother returned home to her luxury New York City apartment building to find two of her small children stabbed to death in a bath and their nanny, with self-inflicted stab wounds, lying near them.

Darren O’Dea admits to being close to Darron Gibson but still can’t understand his pal’s self-imposed international exile.

Celebrity chef Neven Maguire and wife Amelda have ruled out having any more children because of the health risk.

Agyness Deyn has got married.

So You Think and Aidan O’Brien’s large contingent of Dubai runners have arrived safely in the Gulf ahead of Saturday’s World Cup meeting.