Love may be in the air this week as Valentine’s Day looms, but Cork couple Caroline Curran and Seán Weir were lucky enough to have real-life versions of Cupid in the form of their pals.

The Kerry GAA fan who suffered a heart attack at Saturday night’s Allianz League game in Tralee has heaped praise on everyone who helped save his life.

For the first time in the history of the State, more than 30% of the candidates running in the general election are women.

It would be going too far to say Borris-Ileigh’s success made Christmas bearable for Paddy Stapleton and his family.

Patricia Devlin, from Kildare, will be protesting outside the Dáil today calling the government to respond to the climate action group.

Fr Coote passed away yesterday evening surrounded by his mother Patricia and brothers David, Kieran and Pat.

It’s not very often that I get nostalgic for the old days.

“If I have one regret,” my friend Patricia said, “it’s that I lived in Paris in the summer of 1968, and it all went over my head.”

The family of a woman who died following a collision with a Luas tram say they will carry her in their hearts forever.

Majella Moynihan told her story this week and joins the likes of Ann Lovett, Joanne Hayes, and Eileen Flynn as women who were failed by the State, writes Dan Buckley

Michael McCabe passed away peacefully at home in Mountnugent, Co Cavan surrounded by his family yesterday.

Five years after the completion of a €1.3m residential centre for adults with autism, the Co Kerry facility remains unoccupied.

A woman whose humanist marriage was described as "mumbo-jumbo" and "away with the fairies" by a district court judge has had her four-month jail term lifted on appeal.

In April 2007, at the height of the madness, I felt the wrath of one of the most powerful figures in the country at the time.

Paddys of all ages donned the patron saint’s costume and marched through Cork city today to celebrate the restoration of the city’s landmark St Patrick’s Bridge.

It is hard to think of another country that has so very successfully turned its national day, the celebration of its national saint’s birthday — one of them anyway — into such slick marketing and political opportunities.

RTÉ have confirmed broadcaster Arthur Murphy, best known for the series Mailbag has died aged 90.

As the Blue Book turns 45, Marie Toft joins the women at the helm of Ireland’s country houses for afternoon tea.

Playing one character can be challenging enough. So taking on a big screen character that has 20 personalities is no small feat, writes Kerri-Ann Roper

Patrick White, who was in his mid-40s, was a well-known face on the labour ward at CUMH and further afield.

A 10-year-old schoolboy, who witnessed a horror attack on his toddler sister by a Brazilian tapir at Dublin Zoo and saw his parents injured in a bloody fight to save their daughter’s life, has been awarded €25,000 in the Circuit Civil Court.

The Square Table, No 5, The Square, Blarney, Co Cork.

The field, the plaster face of the Virgin Mary, the labouring, dying 15-year-old, the dead baby…

An application by the State’s corporate watchdog to examine material on computers taken from the suicide counselling charity Console has been further adjourned at the High Court.

Ask Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages.

2017 was dominated by knives, rural crime, burglaries and gangland feuds, reports Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe.

The Cork-born art historian, Patricia Curtin-Kelly, has long been fascinated by the work of Harry Clarke — the famous stained glass artist and illustrator responsible for the magnificent windows in the Honan Chapel, University College Cork.

39-year-old Patricia Byrne from Drogheda has been located safe and well.

A pilot has appeared in a British court charged with murdering his wife.

A woman who lost her mother to Alzheimer’s disease is using her grief to help others.

A woman who lost her mother to Alzheimer’s disease is using her grief to help others.

A retiring judge yesterday criticised some sectors of the media for swingeing attacks on sentences imposed by courts rather than addressing the more complex area of reintroducing prisoners to society on their release from jail.

A paralysed woman is heartbroken because plans to build her “dream home” in Co Limerick were refused planning permission by An Bord Pleanála.

The first ever World Pre-eclampsia Day takes place today, highlighting a condition that kills 100,000 pregnant women and 500,000 babies every year globally, writes Ailin Quinlan

Helen O’Callaghan hears some fond memories from family meal times through the recollections of celebrities and their mothers.

Here are the top three films you don’t want to miss this week, writes Declan Burke.

When Liam Doran was a young nurse staying in the nurses’ home at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth, the nuns hung a sign on his door saying “Man in the House”.

Members of the public have donated more than €70,000 in a bid to save the family home of a widowed father of five from repossession.

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An expert ponders the findings while a Dutch family in Clare say they won’t be heading home any time soon, writes Arlene Harris.