Noeleen Diskin didn’t think twice about donating her kidney to her identical twin sister, Helen Keogh.

A man adopted a “high handed approach” in dealing with his neighbour in a dispute over a boundary in a seaside village, the president of the High Court has said.

No matter how exciting their lives overseas, Christmas is a time when most emigrants dream of home. Arlene Harris talks to emigrants in Ireland and overseas

Willie Mullins’ Indevan easily reversed previous Kilbeggan form with Bally Longford in the Benchmark Hospitality Novice Chase at rain-swept Killarney last night.

There were some shock results at yesterday’s well-attended United Hunt Club’s point-to-point fixture at Ballindenisk outside Watergrasshill.

Aidan O’Brien’s Coach House, who made a very promising debut when second at the Curragh, was taken from 4-6 to 2-5 in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Tipperary last night and won with any amount in hand.

KERRY has been stunned by the sudden death of another talented young sportsman.

“WE DON’T do presents” said Maurice Ahern, as he strolled into his brother’s controversial birthday party last night.

IT was business as usual at Galway last night, as Dermot Weld’s Stunning View landed the valuable Topaz Mile EBF Handicap, one of three winners for the Rosewell House maestro.

A Dublin man has been jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering his partner of 21 years, whom he kicked in the stomach with enough force to split her liver during a row over Valium.

TWO Irishmen were last night toasting possible Oscar success after they were nominated for their work on Avatar and Star Trek.

JUNIOR mountaineer Sean McSharry may have made history by becoming the youngest European to scale Africa’s highest peak, but the plucky 10-year-old has an even tougher mountain to climb ahead — he has to go back to school tomorrow.

The inquest into the death of a baby girl discovered stabbed in a lane in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin in 1973 is due to resume today.

THE mother of a baby girl whose body was found dumped in a laneway in Dún Laoghaire over 32 years ago has made an impassioned plea for the full facts of her daughter’s death to be established.

Gardaí will send a new file to the Director of Public Prosecutions in the coming weeks, in the case of a baby girl whose body was found in a laneway in Dun Laoghaire 32 years ago.

PAULINE O’REILLY’S seven adopted children have never heard their mother curse or shout or say anything bad about anyone.

CONTRARY to popular opinion among Fianna Fáil followers, Ireland’s new EU commissioner Charlie McCreevy is not even top dog in his own family.

CHARLIE McCreevy will have a big enough Brussels salary to allow him follow his famous champagne lifestyle, but he might not have enough time to spend it.

FOR a Government that spends millions of euro on a small army of spin doctors and advisers to tart up its image, the Coalition is slow to tell the public who they are and how much they get.

DESSIE HUGHES saddled his first winner since the death of stable jockey Kieran Kelly when Tipp Top took the WLR FM Maiden Hurdle at Tramore last night.

Two women who had their wombs removed by an obstetrician now struck off the medical register told today of the devastation and shock they felt when they found out what had happened.

A 22-year-old Carlow man has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for the manslaughter of a teenage father-of-one he stabbed to death in a row in Carlow town in 2001.

A murder trial jury will retire tomorrow to consider its verdict in the case of a 22 year-old Carlow man on trial for the murder of a teenage father-of-one.

A 22 year-old Carlow man told gardai that he struck out at a teenage father-of-one, stabbing him repeatedly because the younger man had "tried to rape" his mother.

A murder trial jury has heard how a teenage father-of-one, stabbed to death in a row outside his home in Carlow, choked on his own blood.

A witness has told a murder trial jury that he saw a Carlow man accused of murder stabbing the deceased man in the neck, the shoulder and the back.

The mother of a Carlow man accused of the murder of a teenage father-of-one has alleged that the dead youth tried to have sex with her two weeks before her son allegedly stabbed him to death.

The mother of a Carlow man accused of the murder of a teenage father-of-one has alleged that the dead man tried to have sex with her two weeks before he was allegedly stabbed to death by her son.

A MIDDLE-AGED couple, who wept as a court heard charges connected to the handling of paintings stolen from a stately home, were released on bail yesterday

A COUPLE are due back in court today on charges of handling paintings stolen from the Beit Collection at Russborough House in Co Wicklow last September.

A husband and wife have been charged with handling five valuable paintings which were stolen from a stately home in Co Wicklow, in the Irish Republic.