The Belfast-born editor and writer was described as a ‘very special student’ by her former lecturer, Professor Paul Bradshaw.

She may not have done as well as she hoped in the pole vault final, but Holly Bleasdale was celebrating anyway after being proposed to by her boyfriend.

Changes to Facebook always provoke controversy and more is expected during the next few weeks as users are forced to adapt to the website’s timeline feature.

THOUSANDS of primary pupils are to get a boost to their enjoyment of reading thanks to a €185,000 gift from a Cork publishing firm.

A bookkeeper who admitted to being in possession of 1,200 child pornographic texts and videos has been given a three years suspended sentence by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.