Niamh McCarthy secured Ireland’s first medal at this year’s World Para Athletics Championships yesterday, winning bronze in the discus.

I suffered from terrible judgment in my 30s and ended up marrying a guy from Mallow. I’m literally paying for it to this day.

The Cope Foundation offers an employment support service which aims to connect young people who have intellectual disabilities with employers. Donal O’Keeffe meets three people who are benefitting from the scheme.

“It’s not a party as such, more of a kitten-cuddling day really”

Audrey's been sorting out Cork people for ages...

Sorting out Cork people for ages...

Dublin’s TG4 All-Ireland ladies senior football winner Noelle Healy received the Croke Park Hotel Player of the Month award for September yesterday. And she hopes to add to her awards collection at tonight’s TG4 All Stars ceremony, writes Jackie Cahill

Students who received their Junior Cert results today are being urged to celebrate responsibly.

Noelle Brown’s 89-year-old mother helped to inspire ‘CREAKING’, a play that will feature volunteer cast members at every venue, writes Margaret Jennings.

Audrey’s been sorting out Cork people for ages! She’s back again this week to solve all your problems, including avoiding an OTT Holy Communion.

Cork City FC supporters paid a moving tribute to Noelle Feeney outside Turner's Cross following the removal of her remains this evening.

Cork City FC last night paid tribute to legendary fan Noelle Feeney, who died yesterday, by making her a permanent honorary trustee.

All seven of Elizabeth and Jim Lenihan’s children have been immersed in sport growing up in Deliga, near Milford.

A taxi-driver allegedly bit off part of a man’s thumb after a group of passengers started laughing about his name, a trial has heard.

A man who has brought smiles to the faces of countless sick and deserving children was given a standing ovation by more than 250 guests as he was pronounced Cork Person of the Year.

Your article (Irish Examiner, December 5) prompts me to join the hundreds of Corkonians in remembering with nostalgia that night of December 12 1955, when our beloved Opera House burned.

Cork teenager Noelle Lenihan produced the display of her life to win a silver medal at the IPC Paralympic Athletics World Championships in Doha.

A member of a leading political family, also a prominent golfer and golf-course designer, treated rich and poor just the same, mourners at his funeral were told yesterday.

Hilary Fennell finds the beauty of solitude and a quiet place to work at the Cill Rialaig artists’ retreat in south-west Kerry.

It was built in the 1920s in the Spanish Mission style, topped by one of those red clay tile roofs so popular in South Florida back then. 

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His fame came from football but his name transcends the game. Dermot Earley was John Scally’s boyhood hero.

An inspirational video launched by a cancer sufferer six weeks ago has been viewed more than 110,000 times on YouTube.

To the Rocky theme, of course.

"If this video gives someone the strength to get out of bed for even one extra day and fight on, it will have been worth the effort."

A senior fire officer has warned people they face an "invisible threat" when dealing with barbecues.

A woman is in a critical condition in hospital after been engulfed in flames at a family barbeque.

The sister of a University of Limerick student who collapsed and died suddenly on one of her last days in college has thanked those who held the 22-year-old’s hand in her final moments.

Preliminary autopsy results on the body of a student who collapsed suddenly at a lecture hall on one of her last days at college have proved inconclusive.

A book of condolence has been opened at the University of Limerick for a 22-year-old student who collapsed and died on the second last day of her final year at college.

A full investigation is to be carried out into how a car came tumbling down on a young man in Co Donegal, killing him instantly.

A heartbroken mother who found out on Friday night that her only son had been killed in an accident in Thailand received flowers from him on Saturday for Mother’s Day.

It was a journey that gathered pace from what is now known as Earley’s Barn in Cloonelt to the house in Gortaganny that came with his father’s job as principal of the national school, before ending on the other side of the country in Newbridge.

MY NAME is Noelle and I’m a very bad runner. How bad? I knock down children. I ran over a toddler last night, and I don’t even have a vehicle.

La Bigoudenne, 28 MacCurtain Street, Fermoy, Co Cork; Tel: 025-32832.

Ghost Town

Kim Kardashian wants to run for mayor.

Carol Anne Milton wrote a book to help her cope after her youngest son Alan took his life. Here in an extract from the Coldest Night, she recalls how a day that began like any other, turned into her biggest nightmare.

A film set against the background of teen anxiety, mental disorder and an institution doesn’t on the face of it appeal, yet this teen version of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest' – based on the novel by Ned Vizini – is surprisingly and consistently watchable, thanks to a wide range of quality performances from the cast.