The couple can take the royal sponsorship or get commercial sponsorship. Each comes with terms and conditions, writes Terry Prone.

They’ve competed at European and Olympic level but this victory with their kids was extra special because it will change lives.

The weird and wonderful world of showbiz did not disappoint when it came to some of the global celebrity stories that made the headlines in 2019.

Ask Audrey predicts good news for 2020, with Cork to bring a double-double back to Páirc Uí Chaoimh. The bad news is that by the end of the year, the Páirc may be a water polo stadium

With the royals celebrating another engagement, who are Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi?

As we say in Ireland, Meghan is damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t, partly because she’s a woman and partly because she’s a human of colour, writes Joyce Fegan

Physical activity is essential for children, Olympians Marian and Rob Heffernan tell Cliona Foley. They also believe sport does not always have to have a competitive edge to get positive results

So Meghan, the duchess of Sussex, gave birth to a son, and the British and in some cases, the Irish press, which for weeks has been positively giddy with rumour, was freed from its stifling wait for actual news of a royal baby.

New mums should follow in Meghan Markle’s footsteps and not fret about their baby tum during the weeks following childbirth, says Sharon Ní Chonchúir.

Doulas are women who provide emotional and domestic support to expectant and new mums, like a hired friend, says Helen O’Callaghan.

Got an issue? Ask Audrey.

So that’s Wednesday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Skincare advice with Jennifer Rock

Joint engagements will be covered by all platforms.

Susan O’Shea discovers that facial yoga isn’t an anti-ageing miracle — but that it does have its benefits.

From make-ups to break-ups to high-powered weddings, it’s been a busy year in the celebrity world, writes Kelly O’Brien.

2018: #ThisHappened on Twitter

Nuala Woulfe explains why we’re living in an eighties bubble and it’s down to clever marketing preying on our nostalgia.

Meghan may have had surgery to remove her bony bumps but before you go under the knife there are simpler and cheaper options to consider, writes Deirdre Reynolds.

IT is said they are the most down-to-earth royals, the most accessible, the least stiff-upper-lippy. That’s Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Wherever the Second Grandson inherits, writes Colm O’Regan.

Visitors can get up close and personal with Meghan Markle’s wedding dress as a new exhibition opens at Windsor Castle. Rachel Marie Walsh meets the curator.

Meghan Markle is my princess. I love her girly enthusiasm and her expressive eyes and her impossibly gorgeous figure.

The couple arrived in Sydney on Monday ahead of a 16-day tour which will take in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga.

Best-selling novelist Sinead Moriarty lives in Dublin with her husband and three children, aged 13, 12, and 9. Her latest book Our Secrets and Lies is published by Penguin Books.

Catch up on all the headlines this lunchtime...

Serena Williams and Angelique Kerber will meet in the Wimbledon final tomorrow in a rematch of the 2016 showpiece.

2FM’s Louise McSharry DJ’d the event with a playlist of contemporary Irish music.

It wasn’t quite the African safari or Caribbean escape that avid royal watchers had anticipated for Harry and Meghan’s first overseas trip as a married couple, but sure, as they say, when the sun shines in Ireland, you could be anywhere.

It was meant to be Harry and Meghan’s moment but their spotlight was very nearly stolen by another audacious couple.

It was meant to be Harry and Meghan’s moment but their spotlight was very nearly stolen by another audacious couple.

Your headlines this lunchtime...

Harry gifting Meghan with a golden unicycle mid-ceremony is believable, right?

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As Meghan Markle prepares to marry her prince, Ciara McDonnell hears our experts’ tips on what she should (and shouldn’t) include in her wedding speech.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have announced that thousands of people will be invited into the grounds of Windsor Castle to share their wedding day.

An English council leader has been branded "abhorrent" after calling on police to clear rough sleepers from Windsor before the royal wedding between prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

Our frighteningly frank agony aunt looks ahead to 2018, from cranes over Cork to Brexit and Pairc Uí Chaoimh

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have shared two new official portrait pictures after their engagement announcement last month.

Take inspiration out of Meghan’s playbook and nail your party look by simply keeping it simple. Carolyn Moore looks back on Markle’s year in fashion.

OFF the pitch, footballer Mark McNulty is not what you’d expect. There’s hardly a sentence when the Cork City goalkeeper doesn’t mention his children.

Britain’s Prince Harry declared he was “thrilled” as he and bride-to-be Meghan Markle made their first appearance in public since the announcement of their engagement.

Prince Harry designed Meghan Markle's engagement ring himself, using diamonds which belonged to his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.

Meghan Markle will be the first mixed race person in modern history to marry a senior British royal.