Former Limerick star Andrew O’Shaughnessy says he can’t afford to worry about his multiple sclerosis (MS).

Transgender rights activist, Lydia Foy, who fought a long legal battle for recognition of her female gender, said it is all about being acknowledged as an equal citizen.

A doctor in the addiction services is relying on EU law against age discrimination as part of his legal challenge to a HSE requirement that he must retire at 65, the High Court has heard.

Almost 26,000 people received free legal advice from FLAC last year but some are waiting up to six months for a first consultation in a Legal Aid Board office.

Given its location and logistical challenges, Tournafulla doesn’t appear naturally conducive to setting up a business, but two local entrepreneurs are bucking that trend in very different ways.

Richard Bruton’s sweeping changes could face a constitutional challenge as some lawyers see themselves being sidelined, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

A hotel manager who sought a High Court injunction preventing his dismissal has settled his High Court action.

A hotel manager is seeking a High Court injunction preventing his dismissal.

Maria Murphy, the director of communications at the Irish Medical Organisation, has settled High Court proceedings brought following her purported dismissal.

Five people have cause to be thankful for very special gifts this festive season after their lives were saved by a little girl born on Christmas Day.

Moves to improve job security for teachers could end up limiting second-level students’ subject choices, a school management leader has warned.

Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall today vowed to fight sex offence allegations and “regain my honour”, saying he had been through a “living nightmare” since the charges were brought.

A record number of enquiries were received by Free Legal Advice Centres last year, due mainly to a 69% increase in debt and credit matters.

CHRISTMAS for many people this year is something to be dreaded rather than looked forward to with the usual joy and anticipation.

In 'Dream House' – the new suspense thriller from Irish director Jim Sheridan – Daniel Craig plays Will Atenton, a successful New York publisher who disavows his high-powered Manhattan lifestyle and relocates along with his wife, Libby (Rachel Weisz), and two daughters (Taylor and Claire Astin Geare) to a picturesque New England hamlet.

EVERY YEAR the Georgina Campbell Awards are eagerly awaited by the restaurant industry.

DROMORE goalkeeper Peter Ward believes Ballinderry would have won a handful of All-Ireland titles in the past 15 years had their golden era not coincided with the reign of the country’s greatest club, Crossmaglen.

IT’S not often the death of an elderly man, someone you barely knew, pulls you up short.

FORMER Ulster Volunteer Force leader Gusty Spence has died, aged 78.

A member of Sinn Féin has said that the former loyalist paramilitary leader Gusty Spence was a "major influence" in loyalism's movement away from violence in the North.

The former UVF leader Gusty Spence has died at the age of 78.

A COMMUNITY harvest street lunch focusing on the benefits of organic foods will take place in Co Tipperary this weekend.

A PARADE of pigs will get the fourth annual Waterford Festival of Food under way today with cooks, experts and foodies set to descend on the region for the weekend.

AN economic boost worth over €1 million is set to be pumped into the south-east in the coming days with this year’s edition of the Waterford Festival of Food.

NATIONAL Organic Food Week, now in its sixth year continues to gather momentum. The raison d’être for the week-long campaign from Monday, September 13 to Sunday, September 19 is to raise awareness about organic food and where to buy and enjoy it.

PRODUCERS, retailers and farmers’ markets nationwide will host more than 70 events countrywide during National Organic Week.

“I’ve been all over Ireland in recent years, and have found a lot of wonderful places to eat, drink, and/or buy good Irish food products,” says Colman. “Country Choice, though, is something special to me. It was Peter Ward, in fact, who first called my attention to the culinary riches of Ireland. I found his passion for, and knowledge of, traditional Irish cooking, and the country’s impeccable raw materials, to be seductive and inspiring".

ICONIC American food writer, Colman Andrews’ beautiful new cook book has just been published. Colman fell in love with Irish food and hospitality when he ate bacon and cabbage, and apple tart, in Peter and Mary Ward’s kitchen in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, in 2002.

Three loyalist paramilitary groups in the North have started to decommission their weapons after painstaking behind-the-scenes efforts to secure disarmament.

AN Irish Press reporter was watching a police water cannon vehicle moving into position. He had never seen one in action before.

THE parents of the late Brian Murphy, the teenage student who was kicked to death in a fight outside Club Anabel in Dublin in August 2000 — gave a poignant interview this week following the inquest into the death of their son. They are left with a life sentence of the pain of their loss.

POSSIBLE signs of alien life have been found in a second Martian meteorite.

I LISTENED to the radio with horror as events unfolded in Dublin last Saturday.

Paul Gascoigne could be set for a swift return to management in the new year with Nationwide Conference North outfit Lancaster City.

AT 6’4” he lords it over Mickey Harte’s Tyrone panel. One look at Pascal McConnell and you sense there was never any doubt that he would be a goalkeeper.

The state legal aid system has failed to meet the needs of people across the country, it was warned today.

A SCHOOLGIRL who fought back to health after devastating illness and a bank official turned crusading priest who turned himself into a human guinea pig were among the winners of this year’s ESB/Rehab People of the Year Awards.

ARTISAN food has a role to play in maintaining and building vibrant rural economies, Food Minister Noel Treacy declared when he launched the Taste Council’s strategic plan for the speciality food industry.