Like many young women her age, Lynsey Cribbin loves nothing more than spoiling herself on a shopping spree.

The parents of a once healthy woman, whose severe paralysis means she can now only communicate by blinking, have told of their anger that their daughter has been denied the specialist care she needs.

The six year old great niece of Alex ’Hurricane’ Higgins will tomorrow release the song she sang at his funeral as a tribute to the late snooker legend.

It has taken Ryan Day eight often frustrating years to secure his first appearance in the semi-finals of a world-ranking event but tonight the Welshman faces Peter Ebdon in the Malta Cup convinced he belongs at the game’s highest level.

After flattering to deceive on many occasions, Ryan Day has booked his long awaited debut in the semi-finals of a world ranking event.

THE US Congress is being urged to investigate the death of a Dublin teenager who fell from an American-owned cruise ship.

SERIOUS questions have been raised by passengers about the search efforts made by the cruise liner from which an Irish teenager fell to her apparent death 11 days ago.

THE grief-stricken family of the Irish teenager who disappeared overboard from a cruise liner last Thursday has arrived back in Ireland.

Hopes are fading of finding a missing Irish teenager alive after she fell overboard while holidaying on a cruise ship in the Caribbean.

Hopes were today fading of finding a missing teenager alive after she fell overboard while holidaying on a cruise ship in the Caribbean.

Hope is fading for a Dublin teenager missing off the coast of Mexico.

THE school attended by missing Dublin teenager, Lynsey O’Brien, re-opened specially yesterday to cater for the large group of distraught friends who were overcome with grief at the news of her disappearance.

HOPES for an Irish teenager who fell overboard a luxury cruise liner in the Caribbean are fading as an ongoing rescue operation yesterday failed to discover any trace of the missing student.

THE younger sister of missing Dublin schoolgirl, Lynsey O’Brien, witnessed her falling overboard from a cruise liner off the Mexican coast in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Distraught classmates of an Irish teenager missing from a cruise ship in the Caribbean were gathering at her school today to comfort each other.

The latest reject from ITV’s Popstars talent show today rebutted claims by one former contestant that the show asked young hopefuls to “sign their lives away”.

A body found beside a bridge on the River Shannon was tonight confirmed as that of 16-year-old Victor O’Connor, one of two teenager missing after falling into the water while walking with friends.