The comedian and singer Brendan Grace has passed away, aged 68.

Joe Dermody looks at this week's business movers

A Dad who spoke publicly about the loss of his 13-year old son in tragic circumstances died just 16 months later, an inquest has heard.

The Central Criminal Court trial heard that Melanie was shot in the head as she sat in a car with her boyfriend and his friend in Tallaght.

Antoinette Corbally is the latest bystander caught in the crossfire, says Caroline O'Doherty.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Humanity is on the brink of doom and a young girl might hold the key to its survival…

Detectives are “one important step” closer to finding the killer of Melanie Hall thanks to DNA evidence from where her remains were found.

Mother’s Day may nearly be upon us but there is still time to find that something special. 

Fiona Doyle is ready for the spotlight.

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The Dublin native who killed his fellow countryman in Australia while high on the “meow meow” drug two years ago, has been sentenced to at least 17 years in prison by a Perth court.

This is the type of car you buy when you often must write, take calls, or otherwise work while you are being driven to your summer home, says Hannah Elliott

The suave but lethal Bradley Fine (Jude Law) is the CIA’s most successful Spy (12A), but when Bradley is killed by Balkan villain Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne), Bradley’s deskbound analyst Susan ‘Coop’ Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is sent into the field to track down the ‘mini-nuke’ Bradley was pursuing.

Leonard Nimoy has been laid to rest.

BOUNTIFUL, the début novel of Allie Murray, a native of County Waterford, now living in Rathcormac, elects to shine a light on the many deceits, conspiracies and undercurrents that tend to shape life in any number of Irish villages, says Billy O’Callaghan.

Melanie Walsh never planned on taking a crash course in learning to care for pre-term infants — until her little girl Saoirse was born at 29 weeks, weighing less than 2lb.

We really need to see more of this!

The father of Jules Bianchi admits his son's situation is "desperate" and that it is a "miracle" he is still alive, but believes he will "not give up" his fight for life.

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Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has likened Simon Cowell to an “annoying brother”.

A pub in America is offering customers a Bloody Mary - topped with a WHOLE fried chicken.

Cheryl Fernandez-Versini said Mel B has brought out her mischievous side as they headed into the latest round of X Factor auditions at Wembley.

Tune in to Ch4 at 10pm for a documentary shedding light on the world of child shooters in America, illuminating the beliefs, ambitions and paranoia that underpin it.

Sharon Stone is "available for dating" again.

Two brothers are alleged to have challenged their neighbour by calling him “an English bastard”, while one of them is accused of threatening to run over the man’s son with a car.

Melanie Chisholm has hinted the Spice Girls could reform in 2016.

A former girlfriend of Melanie McCarthy McNamara's killer has been brought before the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.

Teenager Daniel McDonnell has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy McNamara.

The teenager charged with murdering Melanie McCarthy McNamara was a protected prisoner when he allegedly wrote a letter containing the phrase: "Two in the head. The bitch is dead".

A murder trial has heard that teenager Melanie McCarthy McNamara was bleeding profusely from her skull when she arrived at hospital after being gunned down in Tallaght two years ago.

A jury has been told that the teenager charged with murdering 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy McNamara allegedly bragged about shooting her in graffiti on his cell wall.

Scarlett Johansson's mother tried to deter her from a career in acting.

All Saints are reforming in 2014.

Axed 'X Factor' wannabe Melanie McCabe has revealed producers rang her up and convinced her to go on the show.

Ireland’s X Factor hopeful Melanie McCabe may have been booted off the show for a fourth time, but she hasn’t let it sour her tone.

KURT COBAIN:

A Dublin man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy McNamara, who was shot while sitting in a car in Dublin last year.

A Dublin man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy McNamara who was shot while sitting in car in Dublin last year.

Arsenal star Theo Walcott beamed as he tied the knot with childhood sweetheart Melanie Slade and said the marriage was “everything I could have wanted”.

A Venezuelan transsexual who was convicted as a man on a charge of helping to run a brothel arrived in the appeal court yesterday as a woman, hoping to have the case dismissed.