An audience of millions on the Ellen DeGeneres show, live from Hollywood in Los Angeles, provided an unforgettable experience for family group Crystal Swing.

PROSTATE cancer is no laughing matter, but that doesn’t stop comedian Brendan Grace from making wisecracks about it on stage.

More than 7,700 patients waited on trolleys for admission to hospital last month — the worst figures for the month of May since records began, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).

Farloe Blitz continued his serene progress through the Greyhound & Pet World and Odds On Dog Food Supersprint with a wide-margin victory in the first semi-final on Saturday night at Curraheen Park.

With more than 150,000 pilgrims expected to attend the Knock Novena, Micheal Kelly reflects on the enduring draw of the Mayo shrine.

A total of 115 entries, the highest since 2009, have been attracted to the first £1m Crabbie’s Grand National at Aintree on April 5.

TV and radio presenter, Lucy Kennedy, 37, can’t wait to start work with her “new husband” on TV3 next month.

Mystery surrounded an eyecatching gamble and subsequent stewards’ withdrawal of Like A Diamond in the Tote Win 24% Better Than Bookmakers SP Maiden at Ballinrobe last night after officials announced they were concerned the three-year-old was not in the care of his stated trainer.

NOT to be outdone by the new mother-in-law, one of them is teaching herself how to cook.

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On the eve of the Irish Hospice Coffee Morning, Colette Sheridan visits the new Marymount in Cork, now one year old

Saint Patrick's College in Maynooth, the National Seminary for Ireland, has welcomed 12 new seminarians who will begin their studies for the priesthood.

Dougal Philps should be primed to strike for Willie Mullins in the Craic On The track 19th August Maiden at Ballinrobe tonight.

Libranno, out of sorts when flopping in the Duke of York Stakes last month, returned to near his best to shade a three-way photo in a thriller for the Bathwick Tyres Cathedral Stakes at Salisbury yesterday.

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THE Mayor of Limerick yesterday led condemnations of the desecration of a statue and grotto in Ballinacurra Weston.

THE artist who created the controversial image of Our Lady hit back at critics last night as religious protesters picketed outside University College Cork (UCC).

MAY I please address UCC’s decision to host an exhibit that insults Our Lady this weekend.

IT WAS supposed to be a small academic conference at University College Cork (UCC) with four guest speakers exploring various aspects of Chicano, or Mexican American culture.

ONE of the world’s most famous broadcasters drew a “Blankety Blank” yesterday while seeking apparitions in Co Cork.

The HSE is under continued pressure today as further cases emerge of women being told they had miscarried when in fact their babies were still alive.

OUR Environment Minister John Gormley yesterday launched a website to help us reduce our carbon emissions. The site is to encourage all of us to commit to a 10% cut in carbon emissions by next year.

A GRAFFITI attack has been carried out on Rathkeale’s tree stump which people claim projects the image of Our Lady.

THE Rathkeale willow tree stump which people claim projects an image of Our Lady is making global headlines.

MARGARET SHERIDAN, one of the hundreds who yesterday visited the willow tree stump in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, which many claim projects the image of Our Lady, said it has worked a miracle of sorts for her husband, Dan, who is on dialysis.

HUNDREDS of people gathered last night in an all-night vigil to pray at the stump of a felled tree which locals in west Co Limerick claim projects an image of Our Lady.

Moscow Flyer is on course to defend his Queen Mother Champion Chase title after pleasing connections in a schooling session after racing at Leopardstown.

IF Beef Or Salmon never wins another race, he will owe connections nothing.

IRISH mare Asian Maze and Howard Johnson’s No Refuge head the 18 entries for the Byrne Bros Cleeve Hurdle at Cheltenham on Saturday.

THE discovery of the body of a newborn baby will have sent shivers down the spine of any resident of Granard, Co Longford, old enough to remember the lonely deaths of 15-year-old Ann Lovett and her secret child 21 years ago.

Four people have been injured in an industrial accident in Co Louth.

Reigning champion hurdler Hardy Eustace and Irish darling Solerina are set to clash in Sunday’s Giltspur Scientific Tara Hurdle at Navan.

MEL GIBSON'S film The Passion of the Christ is an accurate account of the last hours and death of Jesus.

ACTRESS Jennifer Lopez is no longer the only millionaire in her family.

AROUND 4,000 pilgrims crossed the bridge to Achill Island yesterday for the tenth anniversary of Christina Gallagher’s House of Prayer.