Tributes have been paid to a five-year-old girl from Ballincollig in Cork who died while visiting relatives in Germany.

A GoFundMe page has raised almost €5,000 for the family of a Cork school girl who died while on holiday with her family in Germany.

Almost 59,000 Leaving Cert students are getting their exam results this morning.

Update: Homes, farms and businesses are still without power supply following bad weather overnight after almost 10,000 customers were affected this morninhg, mainly in Cork, Tipperary and Wexford.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said an “investigation” is needed into how the Football Association of Ireland is spending taxpayers’ money amid ongoing concerns over the transparency of the soccer group.

Independent Senator Rónán Mullen has called for a State inquiry into the FAI's financial situation following former CEO's John Delaney's refusal to answer questions about a €100,000 loan he gave the organisation.

Gardaí have arrested a juvenile in his late teens today in connection with a hit-and-run incident in Cork yesterday.

Sean O’Riordan says nurses are right to make their voices heard after enduring substandard wages and conditions for far too long.

From Kinsale and Clonakilty in West Cork to Donegal via Dublin City, gin producers are cropping up across the country eyeing an ever-increasingly popular market, writes Olivia Kelleher.

The festival, which runs from November 9-18, will showcase Irish and international films with a focus on current global issues.

A father of two who has advocated for improved cancer screening after it emerged that his wife died arising out of deficiencies in CervicalCheck has received the Irish Tatler magazine man of the year award.

While the years of arduous training has given the O’Donovan brothers the edge to overcome mental challenges, they stress that they always try to inject a bit of fun into everything they do.

A voluntary organisation comprised of seven different religious denominations took to the streets of Cork last night for the Leaving Certificate celebrations in order to assist young people who were in difficulty after the festivities.

Her preferred method of handling the news was "to be left alone to get on with it."

Páirc Uí Chaoimh GAA stadium in Cork will have a full house of 45,000 for the Liam Miller benefit soccer match on September 25. The fixture is now sold out.

A young woman with a loose joint syndrome who cannot work or socialise because her joints pop out when she is doing simple acts like brushing her hair says individuals like her have been abandoned by the State.

When asked what he thought of being given an audience with royalty Jack O’Mahony (7) from Clonakilty, Co Cork said that it was “great.”

A father of four who died following an assault in Mitchelstown, Co Cork was remembered as a "one in a million family man" who loved a good chat and had a hearty laugh, his requiem mass in his native Ballindangan heard today.

A Cork company is due to receive €2m in EU funding to promote their pregnancy screening test for pre-eclampsia.

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed has defended the Government's handling of the fodder crisis insisting that they are dealing with a "dynamic situation which is changing on an almost weekly basis".

The sister of a teenage boy who died after taking the synthetic "N-Bomb" drug is so frustrated at the lack of awareness programmes in schools that she is voluntarily setting up her own intensive drugs education cycles at post-primary level.

A former Lord Mayor of Cork has called on a triple rapist not to return to his native city following his release from prison on the grounds that women in the area have expressed fear about his presence in the local community.

Olivia Kelleher rounds up the start times for the parades in Cork and further afield. 

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The husband of missing woman Tina Satchwell has visited a site which is being searched as part of the investigation into the disappearance of his wife.

Brides always anticipate white weddings but few spend the 24 hours before their ceremonies wondering if the event is going to happen at all arising out of blizzard type conditions.

Gardaí are examining claims that members of the force made a joke around missing Cork woman Tina Satchwell but have not yet decided if disciplinary proceedings are warranted or not.

An Irish author who has a young daughter with Down Syndrome has said that he is concerned that literature which has circulated in relation to the Eight Amendment debate will make children such as his own feel unloved or unwanted by their parents.

"I love my mummy very much. She was the best. She was funny. She always made me laugh. She was so special to me."

A mother of five young children who lost her husband to cancer last month has been dealt another devastating blow after she saw all of her belongings go up in flames following a fire at the family home in Mallow, Co Cork.

A couple in their 80s have spoken of their nightmare after they got caught up in a suspected gas explosion at their home in Cork over the weekend, writes Olivia Kelleher.

Olivia Kelleher meets volunteers who create hand-made prostheses for women who’ve had mastectomies

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"We are sleeping with our clothes on in the van at night and our daughter is frightened and very afraid and scared."

A woman who delivered her baby at home in the midst of the chaos of Storm Ophelia is praying that electricity will be restored at her house in Crosshaven, Co Cork so that she can discharge herself from hospital.

Close to 700 delegates from over 95 countries are attending a three-day Learning Cities conference in Cork organised by UNESCO and previously held in Beijing and Mexico city.

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A 37-year-old mother who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of cancer which meant her tongue had to be removed has made an urgent appeal for funds to enable her to travel abroad to get medical treatment in a bid to prolong her life.

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Catch up on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com this morning.

As U2 tune up for tomorrow’s The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 in Croke Park, Dublin, Olivia Kelleher meets their biggest fan.