Mary Hogan dropped her six-year-old grandchild from an upstairs window into the arms of a waiting fireman after the Shannon burst through her home.

About 2,000 people living in 300 homes in have been swamped by floods not seen in Limerick in living memory.

Love/Hate, twerking and a long, hot summer — Dave Kenny takes a tongue-in-cheek look back at the year that was.

ONE of the most striking things about Eamon Dunphy’s upbringing in Drumcondra, on Dublin’s northside, was the love his parents had for each other.

THERE are few actors in contemporary American theatre as well regarded as John Mahoney.

NEWS of the death of John Myers, aged 93, former chief executive of Ballyclough Co-op, now part of Dairygold Co-op, was received with sadness across the Irish dairy industry.

THE well-known political and business figure in Killarney, Co Kerry, Christy McSweeney, has died aged 86.

“MY mother often says to me would you not be better off putting me into a home, I’m too much of a burden on you. We don’t want to do that because that is the end of the road.”

PEARSE O’Neill, well isn’t he the dark horse? One of those legendary Cork GAA mushrooms that sprung up overnight but for all evidence to the contrary.

AN Irish ballad group taking the US by storm will launch its music collection here this week.

A MONUMENT to the legendary ploughman Thady Kelleher, who won two international championships which were, in effect world titles, as well as four senior Irish titles and 40 county honours, was unveiled on the outskirts of Kanturk last Saturday.

PARENTS of a seven-year-old school boy last night held a vigil at his bedside in Beaumont Hospital where he was being treated for serious head injuries after falling from the emergency exit door of a schoolbus.

A Galway woman today became the 20 millionth passenger to travel through Dublin Airport this year.

TRIBUTES have poured in for one of Cork’s most popular business men, Denis MacSweeny, who died yesterday.

THOUSANDS of mourners last night accompanied a man who died in a sea rescue tragedy, last weekend, on his final journey.

THE heartbroken fiancée of one of two brave men who drowned saving two swimmers, is praying for the recovery of the second victim.

MAD puck goats might be a million miles from the mind of any buyer of Laharne Lodge, near Bantry in West Cork — but the house now has a place in Irish music folklore.

BEFORE he died, Damian Meehan phoned his firefighter brother, Eugene, for a bit of advice.