As ‘belfies’ become the pic du jour, Deirdre Reynolds asks why are we so obsessed with our bottoms.

The ’50s musical brings high-school love, quiffs and bobby soxers to Cork Opera House, says Jo Kerrigan

Colette Sheridan talks to Louis Lovett about his hit show The Girl who Forgot to Sing Badly

He’s a global heart-throb — and by far Ireland’s most followed person on Twitter.

THE Padraig Nally case encapsulated all the fears that pervade those who live in isolated outposts of rural Ireland.

THE prohibition system favoured in this country in the fight against drugs has failed miserably and should be abandoned to facilitate a more practical and workable policy, a leading criminologist has insisted.

PARANOIA, self-doubt and a complete inability to see where you’ll get a single vote?

IT’S hard to find things to smile about these days. But a special event this weekend is set to change all that.

THE criminal justice system is spending “increasing and wasteful” sums of scare resources with poor results, a conference will hear today.

ONLY 213 incidents of supplying drugs and possession of illegal substances behind bars have been identified by gardaí over the past five years, new figures reveal.

PRISONS will become “nastier” places under Government plans for drug-free jails, a new report warned yesterday.

Drugs are freely available in prisons and the battle to keep out them out is in “tatters”, according to a report by the Drug Policy Action Group (DPAG).

LESS than 5% of all convictions for drug-related offences result in a prison sentence, according to a new book.

THE discovery of Finbar Dennehy’s body on Wednesday brings the total number of violent deaths to 57 so far this year, up 16% on the same period in 2006.

ALMOST two-thirds of the 3,500 continuing education students registering for courses at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) for the autumn will be women.

A widower whose wife was killed in a car crash said roday that the accident had taken away the woman he loved for 35 years but he and his two children did not want to see the man responsible going to jail as there had been enough suffering already.

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A FUNDAMENTAL right of a defendant - to challenge the evidence of a prosecution witness - would be removed if a controversial proposal is introduced by the Government, it was warned yesterday.

THE proposed Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002 outlaws crimes of terror, no doubt with praiseworthy aims.