Transgender rights activist, Lydia Foy, who fought a long legal battle for recognition of her female gender, said it is all about being acknowledged as an equal citizen.

Netflix continued to make inroads, but the traditional channels also offered some excellent viewing in 2017, writes Des O’Driscoll

This self-published romantic novel shows bags of potential.

Buttevant director Billy O’Brien talks to Caroline Delaney about his film I am Not a Serial Killer

Parents of premature twin boys born within a few days of a set of quads and triplets in Limerick, have praised staff at the city's maternity hospital neonatal unit, for heroically nursing their newborns back to health, after the tiny siblings were rushed to intensive care following their dramatic birth.

Some mother-and-daughter relationships are distant while others near suffocating. In the run-up to Mother’s Day, Ailin Quinlan met three mothers and their daughters who manage to work together.

WHEN a rescue monkey came to live with singer/songwriter Dean Friedman and his family, she quickly settled into her new home at the foothills of the Catskills mountains, north of New York city.

Having three fine sisters himself, The Menu is a great man to hymn the praises of supportive female siblings so reckons the alliance of ‘Three Sisters’ from the South-East, Waterford, Wexford and Kilkenny.

There was a time, and a much simpler time it was too, when a superhero had what it took to save the world all on his own. 

Still Alice *****

Come join us as we look at the best of the viral content from January to June.

The Irish Track teams endured a difficult opening day at the UCI Track World Cup in London yesterday.

IFEST, the first major celebration of Irish culture and food was held in Boston recently. 

A blind New Mexico man who recently earned an auto mechanics degree is looking for a job.

Little Red Gate Cottage is a warm and comfortable retreat with plenty of guest space, writes Rose Martin.

ARECENT newspaper headline announced: “As great white shark Lydia closes in on UK, Brits brace for bloody mayhem on holiday beaches.” The “man-eater” with “razor-sharp teeth” will soon arrive here, we were told. She was “on course for Ireland”.

David Park

Your guide on what to look out for on the box this evening.

A 28-year-old woman who was catastrophically injured when the car in which she was a passenger crashed at high speed has settled her High Court action for €10m.

Theatre - Pride and Prejudice

WHEN it came to writing novels, Laurence Sterne, born in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, 300 years ago this week, certainly enjoyed experimenting. Pages strewn with long dashes, asterisks and the odd hand sign; a torn out chapter; two pages completely smudged with printer’s ink; and a section playfully left blank for the reader to write their own character description.

First-time author Lydia Little has just launched the first of a new series of books based on the adventures of a schoolgirl in a gothic-style castle boarding school with a mysterious past set in enchanting countryside.

Five days after they told the mother of a seriously disabled child who lives with chronic pain that she wasn’t entitled to a medical card, the HSE has admitted to making an “administrative error” as they lost the eight-year-old’s medical records.

Eight-year-old Eirin Nolan O’Connor is profoundly disabled and in constant chronic pain, needing up to 45 syringes and 18 boxes of medication a day — yet the HSE believes she doesn’t deserve a medical card.

Asta Philpot admits having been with a prostitute, and now campaigns for sex rights for the disabled, writes Deirdre Reynolds

The family of a man who died in Tallaght Hospital after becoming increasingly dehydrated, even as his wife begged nurses to give him water, believe the circumstances of his death have been “covered up”.

Dan Stevens may be set to play Mr Darcy in a new BBC adaptation of 'Death Comes to Pemberley'.

The letter landed through the front door last Friday — and it wasn’t good news.

‘Ancient Light’ is Booker winner John Banville’s 19th novel, but he tells Sue Leonard he still hopes he will eventually write the perfect book

A few weeks ago I had a coffee and a chat with Stephen Roche.

Journalist and former Lebanon hostage John McCarthy is keen to highlight social injustice, says Jo Kerrigan

James 'Arg' Argent and Lydia Bright wish 'The Only Way Is Essex' "hadn't happened".

When a bunch of US girls began twitching, theories differed about the cause, from mass hallucinations to toxins, writes Nancy Haas

Death comes to Pemberly

That’s Anne McGrath’s verdict of the politicians who drew up Budget 2011.

TIPPERARY woman Anne McGrath was named the national Carer of the Year in a ceremony that blew away the gloom of recession, at least for a while.

NOT socially acceptable.

A teenage girl bitten by a shark told today how she fought off the creature, smashing it over the head with her body board until it let her go.

THE daughter of a kidnapped newspaper heiress has been unveiled as the face — and body — of lingerie brand Myla.