Fine Gael’s Regina Doherty and Mary Mitchell O’Connor are facing a major backlash from colleagues at a meeting of the party’s ministers tomorrow.

Suzanne Harrington meets the Irish midwife working at London’s exclusive five-star maternity hospital.

Minister says he is unaware of requests for direct contact, but texts suggest otherwise, writes Joe Leogue.

With the passing of the torch to a new generation, Caomhan Keane says it’s his turn in the kitchen

It takes a special kind of cookbook to earn a mention in The Menu and The Farmette Cookbook: Recipes & Adventures from My Life on an Irish Farm (Roost Books), by Imen McDonnell, is certainly such a tome. 

Being a TD is not the ideal job for somebody who wants to strike a good work/life balance and it’s much worse for rural TDS who are away from home midweek. Georgina O’Halloran talked to three parents, including two women, about the sacrifices they have made and will make

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David Letterman has been ushered into retirement by four US presidents declaring “our long national nightmare is over” and a succession of stars delivering a final top 10 list of things they always wanted to say to the late-night TV host.

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HAVING starred in a string of American TV shows, such as Dirty Sexy Money and Shake It Up, Bella Thorne is no stranger to fame, and the 17-year-old Disney star exudes a confidence that surpasses her age.

STOP EVERYTHING. The mean girls reunion you've been waiting for is here

Guess where I’ve just been, Zionsville, Alabama. I couldn’t have found it on a map up to last week, but I now know it’s close to Indianapolis.

“Your song has ended, but the melody lingers on” — the touching Twitter tribute posted by Regina Ní hAilpín just hours after her brother’s body was found in London’s Leicester Square on Thursday evening.

The family of the Galway teenager missing in London since Wednesday saw joy turn to anguish last night as a report that he had been found proved to be untrue.

FOOD writing did not begin in the 1990s, with the rise of the celebrity chef and their (often ghostwritten) glossy tomes of recipes and pretty pictures. Mesopotamian clay tablets dating to 1750BC had recipes inscribed in a complex writing form.

Great food writers must master more than one discipline, because food’s in every aspect of our lives

A government minister has recalled how an neighbour installed a camera directly facing his home at a time when it was publicly known he was receiving death threats.

WHEN you’re sitting on a bench overlooking Clew Bay, under the bluest sky and over the bluest water you’ve ever seen, it’s hard to imagine that there’s anything in the world that needs reform.

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Some parts of Ireland endured the dullest January in almost half a century, experts have revealed.

Dave Murphy had worked continuously for most of his adult life until the end of 2010.

“THEY are endangering people’s lives for the sake of a few euro.”

LIVING in silence and prayer, former president Mary McAleese enjoyed a cloistered existence for a number of days each year with the Poor Clare nuns.

BEING contemplative doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the craic and even a contemplative has to go Christmas crackers once a year.

A RENOWNED Irish soprano is set to help her old school celebrate its 50th anniversary on a high note.

OTTO VON HABSBURG, the oldest son of Austria-Hungary’s last emperor and the longtime head of one of Europe’s most influential families, has died.

“IF you don’t remember anything about today, try and remember my son’s picture. Nobody is smiling in it,” a road traffic victim told a conference on the Human Impact of Road Collisions yesterday.

WHEN Regina Mayer’s parents dashed her hopes of getting a horse, the resourceful 15-year-old did not sit in her room and sulk. Instead, she turned to a cow called Luna to make her riding dreams come true.

When Regina Mayer’s parents dashed her hopes of getting a horse, the resourceful 15-year-old did not sit in her room and sulk. Instead, she turned to a cow called Luna to make her riding dreams come true.

A man was remanded in custody in Britain today accused of murdering his two young children.

DÉISE gaeldom is mourning the passing of one of Waterford’s greatest ever hurlers.

David Letterman’s alleged blackmailer was motivated by seeing the TV host kiss his girlfriend.

AMERICAN talk show star David Letterman apologised on the air to his wife who he said had been “horribly hurt” by his admission he had sexual affairs with staff members.

IT was the green, green grass of home that finally made Jenny crumble.

MEMBERS of the army’s 12th battalion from Sarsfield Barracks, Limerick, yesterday provided a guard of honour at the funeral of retired corporal Stephen O’Grady who was stabbed to death at his home early on Thursday last.

A 25-YEAR-OLD man questioned by Limerick gardaí in connection with the fatal stabbing of retired Army corporal, Stephen O’Grady, was released yesterday without charge.

A MAN was still being questioned by Limerick gardaí last night in connection with the second murder in the city within a week.

Twin girls born attached at their midsections showed no signs of infection on the second of many critical days following their lengthy separation surgery.