Home, Tuesday, 7pm, and my daughter is unsettled to discover, that, at 23 years of age, she’s lost the ability to do the splits.

A Limerick school principal has praised the "diligent and sympathetic" way in which Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has dealt with the plight of a top Leaving Certificate student who found her way into third-level education blocked by fees.

She’s been living here for the past two years and this week she scored top marks in her Leaving Certificate — the highest of any pupil at her school — but annual fees of €25,000 threaten her ambition to attend college here.

WE are just back from another action-packed school tour. 

ONCE a term on the 12-week certificate course, all the students pile into a bus. 

Check out our spolier-free guide to the best shows on TV tonight.

Every Promise

Olga Kurylenko claims the effects used in 'Oblivion' were like "sitting in a washing machine".

Chloe Kelleher is hoping to have the recipe for success as she carries Irish hopes — and ingredients — into a major international cooking competition this weekend.

Olga Kurylenko says she "nearly killed" Daniel Craig during the pair's stunt sequences.

The joy of receiving post, be it a card or a ‘thank-you’ note, is at risk as technology displaces handwriting, says Sue Leonard

A North Cork pre-school has won awards for teaching pupils the benefits of water conservation and water recycling, writes education correspondent Niall Murray

SATURDAY

Vaclav Havel’s ashes have been buried at his family plot at a cemetery in the Czech capital of Prague.

The West Cork Chamber Music Festival has a truly international appeal. Declan Townsend reports

Air accident investigators in the UK today recommended Ryanair review procedures after a three-year-old child fell on to the tarmac while boarding a plane.

FOR more than half of its 180 years, Mount William has been in the same family’s ownership — but now, reluctantly, comes the time to sell.

Russia’s top investigative body said the number of people who died in a nightclub fire in the Urals city of Perm has risen to 109.

ELEVATION: the Hewsons are famous for it, be it the name of a U2 tour or the top of a tower – where Ali wound up at the weekend in a fundraiser for the Chernobyl Children’s Project International (CCPI).

IF Daniel Craig thought he had problems dealing with 007 critics, erstwhile fans and know-it-all Fleming buffs, wait till the St Petersburg communists get a hold of him.

ANITA was sacked after she complained about being paid 50 cent an hour in her job. The Latvian woman worked in the horticultural sector picking mushrooms.

A RARE portrait of one of Picasso’s mistresses has become the second most expensive artwork sold at auction in the world, after going under the hammer for $95.2 million (€75m) in New York.

A VAN GOGH master-piece has gone under the hammer for over €31 million in New York.

A PINK Barbie scooter lying abandoned on the ground struck terror in the heart of a mother searching frantically for her missing toddler.

Four men will appear in court today in connection with an attack on a football club director as his team prepared to play.

GRIEF-STRICKEN islanders in West Cork spoke yesterday of a father’s frantic efforts to resuscitate his toddler daughter after she fell into a low-tide inlet.

A half a century ago, a swashbuckling playboy, the 17th Marquis de Portago, rode Garde Toi to third in the Cheltenham Gold Cup. But that was only one chapter in a remarkable sporting life. Simon Lewis reports.

THE historic town of Most into which Olga Vagasiova was born 29 years ago has completely disappeared.

A home improvement show starring Carol Vorderman today sparked a parking row after residents complained that the film crew was receiving star treatment.