Two teenagers have been hailed as heroes after they rescued two puppies apparently abandoned inside a concrete pipe beside the Boyne river.

Áilín Quinlan asks three couples to share the story of how they met and their secrets to a happy relationship

"I thought that he was amazing – I wish he could visit us every day!"

Seventeen-year-old speed skater Tara Donoghue was left feeling somewhat bittersweet after becoming the first Irish ice skater to claim a quota spot at a Youth Olympic Games — only to realise she’s overage

Until recently, Wicklow man Conor Whooley’s grave on a windswept island in north Wales had been marked by just two words “Plot 322”.

Chances are Sean Skehan is either on the golf course or in the air while you're reading this. It's 45 years now since he essentially introduced to Ireland what we now commonly refer to as The Golf Trip.

Gardaí are renewing their appeal for public assistance in tracing the whereabouts of a woman missing from Co Offaly.

Gardaí are appealing to the public for assistance in tracing the whereabouts of a woman missing from Co Offaly.

This bank holiday weekend, many people will be out on coastal headlands, hoping to catch a glimpse of whales, dolphins, porpoises, and other ocean residents.

Kevin O’Neill The body of an 85-year-old man which was discovered at his home in Cork on Friday may have been undiscovered for seven months.

The body of an 85-year-old man which was discovered at his home in Cork on Friday may have been undiscovered for seven months.

Patients with demential and mental health difficulties are responding remarkably well to a series of programmes that help them become themselves again through song, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

A small dog with a major disability and an even bigger personality is about to have his destiny transformed, thanks to upcoming appointments with media superstars ‘The Supervet’ Dr Noel Fitzpatrick and singer Will Young.

Despite his healthy lifestyle, Ben Gaughran suffered a kidney failure. An organ donor changed everything — and he gives thanks daily, says Margaret Jennings

A book of condolence has opened in the State-owned Killarney House for the last member of the McShain family, who donated the house and grounds to the people of Ireland.

Brian Mason, 28, originally from Broadford, Co Clare died in a motorbike accident 10 hours north of his home in Perth, Western Australia five weeks ago.

Dan Buckley Two Irish brothers are helping Irish and British investors in Spain get back sums to up €500,000, writes Dan Buckley.

A 3D printed model of a kidney has been used in a life-saving transplant operation on a young Belfast mother in a medical first.

It is taking two ministers today to open a mansion saved from ruin.

A garda with a “string of commendations”, who was convicted of assaulting two women in a row about a lift in a car, has been given a six-month suspended sentence.

If you fancy waking up in a tower then this Kells home is ideal, writes Trish Dromey.

A nurse who helped fight Ebola faces being struck off after being accused of recording an inaccurate temperature on an airport screening form for a medic who had contracted the virus.

Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey has been accused of allowing an incorrect temperature to be recorded during a "chaotic" screening process on returning to the UK.

It was always going to be a small protest outside Leinster House yesterday because most of those at the centre of the campaign were too ill to be there.

As Jim Sheridan heads for Schull, he tells Esther McCarthy how the internet has been such a disruptive force for filmmakers

A three-month long project for three Macra clubs in Cork’s Seandún region culminated in a presentation to a residential care home.

The British passenger who posed for a photo with his alleged captor on the hijacked Egyptian plane said it has to be “the best selfie ever”.

The parents of a man who died while taking a shortcut through fields have thanked the volunteers who helped find his body.

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How interesting it is to note in yesterday’s Irish Examiner (January 18) that Paul Bradford and Lucinda Creighton rue the abolition of town councils.

“Don’t argue in front of the visitors” is obviously a warning which Shane Ross and his motley crew of independents never received as children.

When an elderly nun shouted “help” after being attacked when walking to morning mass in Limerick city centre, nobody came to her assistance.

Trainer Phil McEntee, now based in Newmarket, made a successful and emotional return to Laytown yesterday when Putin won the opening Download The At The Races App Handicap.

Course specialist Togoville, ridden by apprentice Sean Corby, proved his liking for Dundalk’s polytrack when landing the five-furlong irishinjuredjockeys.com Handicap at the County Louth venue yesterday.

Whether Galway win or lose, John McIntyre will be outside their dressing room tomorrow evening seeking out words of despair or triumph. Win or lose, he will feel despair and triumph too.

Jonathan deBurca Butler discusses brotherly love and the possibility that "these two fellas might just get on". 

The first child to use one of Ireland’s most spectacular all-inclusive playgrounds has given it the thumbs up.