The summer of 1990 is fondly recalled in Ireland by those of a certain age, and especially so in Cork.

An Irish academic is set to spearhead the promotion of sport and PE on a global level after her appointment to an influential international agency.

Parents in Raheen Gaelscoil in Limerick have voted to hold next year's Holy Communion on May 24 - despite the fact that it clashes with a One Direction Concert.

A new book on the killing of 11-year-old schoolboy Robert Holohan is set to be published around the same time as the DPP's decision in the appeal against the sentence imposed on Wayne O'Donoghue.