A renowned former BBC presenter has said there will never be equal pay for men and women at the BBC "until men have babies".

Tens of thousands of people will not be able to afford their own homes, or access social housing, if government policy continues, a conference on housing has been told.

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THIS year has seen the deaths of many cultural icons both here and abroad, among them music legends David Bowie and Leonard Cohen, novelist William Trevor, actor Frank Kelly, and the irrepressible TV star Terry Wogan.

Medics disagree on whether time off work is the best way to deal with period pain, writes Arlene Harris

An elephant gave one Tyrone man and his family the shock of their lives after it charged them while holidaying in Zimbabwe.

Students who focused on John Montague and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin should have been pleased to see both feature on yesterday’s Leaving Certificate higher and ordinary level English exams.

A young widow has told of her shock at seeing a water bill addressed to her dead husband — complete with the letters ‘RIP’ after his name.

A parish priest, who was asked not to attend a Direct Provision centre in Co. Laois this morning, says he will go despite the request.

It is too early, yet, to think about the literary meaning of the unexpected passing of poet Seamus Heaney nearly a year ago says Thomas McCarthy.

MONOGAMY can be tough, as can infidelity.

A Cork woman living in London who flew home for one day every month to sign on for jobseeker’s allowance was given a three-year suspended jail sentence yesterday.

A Corkwoman living in London who flew home once a month to sign on for jobseekers’ allowance and then returned to the UK defrauded the State of €43,000.

A 33-year-old Cork woman was arrested and charged yesterday with 17 counts of theft related to the fraudulent claiming of over €43,000 of job seekers’ allowance for a period of more than four years.

Errigal Ciaran 0-13 Dromore 0-8

Subscribe and drive service company, GoCar, have opened new bases in Dublin and Cork, with a further five to open in the capital in the coming weeks.

As she languished under house arrest for almost 15 of the last 21 years, Burmese political leader, Aung San Suu Kyi could scarcely have dreamed of days and foreign lands where her cause would be championed.

A GOAL inside the opening minute was the crucial score as Ballinderry held off Dromore challenge to set up a semi-final clash with Crossmaglen.

DROMORE claimed their third

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DROMORE powered into their third Tyrone SFC final in four seasons with an impressive 0-16 to 0-8 win over Omagh at Pomeroy yesterday which sets up a repeat of the 2008 decider against Clonoe.

DUBLIN Lord Mayor Andrew Montague — a major advocate of cycling in his city — was forced to saddle up a different type of transport yesterday to attend the Dublin Horse Show.

NEARLY half of people in Dublin do not feel safe in the city at night time, a poll has found.

Labour Councillor Andrew Montague was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin at the annual meeting of Dublin City Council last night.

A mildly entertaining animated twist on the Shakespeare romance with gnomes playing out the ill-starred love story … the trouble is they do with a minimum of charm or magic.

One million cycle trips have been made on Dublin city’s bike scheme, making it one of the most successful in the world, it emerged today.

A leading estate agency in the North, which employed just one Catholic, showed contempt for fair employment laws, a tribunal has found.

A partner at a leading Northern Ireland estate agency joked about the breeding habits of Catholics and the size of their families, a Fair Employment Tribunal heard today.

A leading Northern Ireland estate agency was an exclusively Protestant firm which operated an old-boy network, a Fair Employment Tribunal heard today.

A LONG-STANDING marketing mystery - why Coke sells more than Pepsi even though it is less popular in blind taste tests - has been solved by a brain scan study, it was revealed yesterday.

Three of four bodies found near an attack on a fuel convoy in Iraq earlier this month were contract workers for a US company once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney.

FOUR out of five lobby groups trying to influence Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy ahead of the Budget make the wrong pitch, according to a study.