For some, it’s a milestone anniversary — 20 years on from one of the most notorious unsolved murders in Ireland. But to her family, it’s been an anniversary just like any other.

The son of murdered French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier has vowed to continue his family's quest for justice until his dying breath, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

The son of murdered French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier has vowed to continue his family's quest for justice until his dying breath.

Tributes have been paid to Kevin Casey, the sports editor of Waterford radio station WLR FM, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 40. The award-winning presenter died after a short illness.

Christy O’Connor Sr was an Irish national treasure who took on golf’s global giants and beat them, his funeral has heard.

An Irish family seriously injured in a traffic collision which resulted in the death of a friend in Australia earlier this year are home again and continuing their recovery.

After packing his mankini for his trip to the famed film festival, Don O’Mahony selects some of the things to watch out for at this year’s event.

Everyman Theatre Cork.

After previous triumphs, expectations are high for this year’s opera at the Everyman. The team behind Faust are confident they can fulfill them, writes Jo Kerrigan

A 20-year-old man, who has admitted dangerous driving that resulted in a fatal accident in Australia, has apologised to three members of an Irish family seriously injured in the crash.

Three members of an Irish family seriously hurt while visiting Australia early this month are continuing to recover in hospitals there.

The condition of three Irish people seriously injured in a traffic accident in Australia is improving.

A Kerry man who was involved in a serious road crash in Australia has been moved from the Intensive Care Unit.

Three members of an Irish family have been hospitalised with serious injuries following a fatal road accident in Australia.

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On Sunday night, operatic star Cara O’Sullivan graces the stage of Cork Opera House in what has been promised as a unique solo performance.

Ian Bailey’s legal team has given the minister for justice and Garda commissioner seven days to stop assisting a French investigation into the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier or else face High Court proceedings.

Ian Bailey’s solicitor Frank Buttimer has condemned as a “charade” and a “complete sham” the pending investigation by French police of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

A controlling husband who knifed his jazz singer wife in the heart after learning of her affair with a saxophonist has been jailed for life by a UK court today.

Parents have no option but to be tough sometimes on their children and this can lead to tussles and conflict, a priest told a congregation at the funeral Mass of a 15-year-old whose body was recovered from the River Shannon.

The availability of land and the “sensible transfer” of farms from one generation to another is one of the major challenges facing the country’s young farmers, Macra na Feirme’s Young Farmer of the Year said yesterday.

The only son of murdered Frenchwoman Sophie Toscan du Plantier has insisted somebody must stand trial for his mother’s death.

Highlights include Jeremy Irons back for the third series of The Borgias and The Review Show’s interview with author Iain Banks, who died recently.

We meet Niamh Sullivan, 31, and Marguerite Tierney, 30.

The heartbroken brother of a talented young sports star who collapsed and died while playing a football match said his younger sibling had touched a huge number of people in his short life and was his “hero”.

Vengeance

A British woman shocked her relatives when she asked for a male stripper for her 100th birthday.

FIRST we heard the country music tones of Mike Denver over the loudspeakers.

The mother of Sophie Toscan du Plantier says she owes it to her daughter to return each year to where she was murdered.

THE exit of Jim McDaid was in keeping with his career, his public persona and his political path. It left a bitter taste.

THE Dermot Weld bandwagon rolled on relentlessly at Limerick last night when Precious Gem, carrying the colours of his mother, Marguerite, landed the Martin Molony Stakes.

CHRISTY O’CONNOR thought it was all a leg pull when he was first told of his induction to the PGA Hall of Fame. Although widely known in his native country because of his fame as simply “Himself,” it was nevertheless typical of the man that he would never believe he was worthy of such an outstanding honour.

SHE’S Ireland’s first official silver surfer, a netizen of considerable skills, whose talented use of emerging technologies belies her advanced years.

IRISH actress Evanna Lynch and Harry Potter author JK Rowling have been pen-pals for years, the 17-year-old who plays Luna Lovegood revealed yesterday.

IRISH society is having to face a growing litany of parents who murder their own children before deciding to escape this life by suicide themselves.

A GRIEVING community said a tearful final farewell yesterday to two workmates killed in a car crash last Monday.

THE NATIONAL Roads Authority (NRA) is to examine the safety of the Mitchelstown bypass after a head-on collision there on Monday afternoon led to the deaths of two men.

TWO families were united in grief last night after two friends who worked together died together in a crash minutes after setting off for work.

IN RECENT times Ireland has been forced to come to terms with the disturbing, increasing and under-reported phenomenon that is murder-suicide after a string of high-profile killings.

THE parents of Patrick O’Dwyer, the young Co Clare man who killed his sister, have voiced their fears for the effect that prison will have on him.

The 21-year-old Clare man who killed his sister with a hammer has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility by a jury in the Central Criminal Court yesterday.

The jury in the trial of a 21-year-old Clare man accused of murdering his 17-year-old sister has been sent out this morning in the Central Criminal Court to consider its verdict.

The jury in the trial of a 21-year-old Clare man accused of murdering his 17-year-old sister will return to the Central Criminal Court on Monday to consider their verdict.

Diagnosing the 21 year-old apprentice butcher accused of murdering his sister as suffering from a mental disorder was an attempt to ‘clutch at straws,’ the director of the Central Hospital said today.