The majority of children aged under seven are unable to correctly identify common vegetables.

The Health Information and Quality Authority’s director of regulation, Phelim Quinn, has been appointed the Authority’s acting chief executive from today.

Best known as an accomplished contemporary classical composer, Ailis Ní Riain has written a play, The Tallest Man in the World which opens at the Triskel Development Centre (TDC) on Thursday as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival.

His father was a famous singer, but Phelim Drew’s first love was acting, writes Colette Sheridan

The last original member of The Dubliners was buried yesterday in a funeral attended by hundreds of people, including family, friends and renowned names from the world of music.

Mourners at the funeral of Barney McKenna, the last of the original Dubliners, have heard how his memory will be treasured.

THE Mosney Village in Co Meath, run by husband and wife, Phelim and Elizabeth McCloskey, more than doubled their pre-tax profits last year.

AN inquest into the death of a man whose defective pacemaker failed on a flight to France heard a warning had been issued by the manufacturer four months earlier, but the hospital failed to inform him.

THE Mosney holiday village in Co Meath, run by husband and wife, Phelim and Elizabeth McCloskey, donated €6,500 to Fianna Fáil last year, according to accounts just filed.

The renaming of a Belfast bar where a man was brutally beaten and stabbed to death by IRA members provoked outrage today.

CAROL and Peter Dunne are among thousands of parents seeking their own choice of multi-denominational second-level education for their families.

RONNIE DREW never tried to make friends, yet he was always surrounded by friendship, his son Phelim said of the father he shared with a second family of musicians and singers.

Ronnie Drew was buried today after a funeral ceremony that brought together many of Ireland’s finest musicians.

Irish folk singer Ronnie Drew will be laid to rest today beside his wife Deirdre following his death at the weekend.

HE may have been described as having a voice like a bullfrog with a hangover, but it was considered the voice of Dublin and made him a cultural icon.

TRIBUTES from far and wide have been paid to the much-loved singer and entertainer Ronnie Drew who has died following a long illness.