The Department of Social Protection has confirmed that any parent who feels they don't need child benefit can arrange to have the payment stopped.

Yet another point for draw specialists Cork in a predictable result at Oriel Park, where Dundalk had drawn their two previous games.

SUMMER is almost here and with it comes that inimitable telltale sound, the buzzing of bees.

THE family of a young garda who died after giving birth to twins will be able to buy a life-saving incubator for other babies thanks to a charity sports fundraiser by her colleagues.

THE father-in-law of Tania McCabe, the young mother who died in childbirth along with one of her twin boys last year, has said he hopes the inquiry into their deaths will result in extra staff being provided to the hospital where they died.

SUMMER wouldn’t be the same without the drone of bees, as they busily and noisily convert nectar extracted from flowers to honey.

STUNG, not once but seven times, Philip McCabe still wants to have another go at getting bees swarm all over his body to get into the Guinness Book of Records.

An Irish beekeeper failed in his bid to break a world record today by gathering over half a million bees on his face.

LIMERICK-based charity Bothar has lined up a fund raising event which could buzz its way into the Guinness Book of Records.