“Remember the girls are going to be a bit jumpier because of what time of the month they told us it is,”

A Cork woman had told how her pen pal friendship, which has lasted almost half a century, has changed with time from old-fashioned letters to instant social media posts.

It’s a pub with a counter almost as long as its history, a meeting place that has become as synonymous with the festive season as carol singing, traffic congestion, and mince pies.

A Garda sergeant at the Charleton Tribunal has said that taking a victim statement was “not an exact science”, when asked about a statement made by the partner of a Garda whistleblower.

Update: New pictures showing Molly Martens and her father Thomas Martens in the hours after Jason Corbett's death have emerged this evening.

A man is to appear in court charged with the murder of a 29-year-old mother who was found fatally injured at the bottom of her stairs last Sunday, writes Conor Kane of the Irish Examiner.

Harry Crosbie took no salary for nearly three years from his last remaining business, the Vicar Street music venue in Dublin, but did draw €1.7m from it to pay for his living and trading expenses, the Commercial Court has heard.

Noelle Brown’s 89-year-old mother helped to inspire ‘CREAKING’, a play that will feature volunteer cast members at every venue, writes Margaret Jennings.

1. Say it with Flowers

EDUCATING RITA has a special place in the hearts of Irish audiences, cinema audiences at any rate.

He was famed as an England boss but any Irish players came under the wing of the late Graham Taylor during his long managerial career, with the legendary Paul McGrath leading the tributes to his former boss.

Alas there was no win for the Irish at this year’s Golden Globe ceremony but as always, we won hearts on the red carpet.

As the hype grows for Oasis: Supersonic, Declan Burke offers a personal selection of its predecessors in the genre

Hey, it’s actually got quite interesting the last few weeks, hasn’t it? In fact, it’s been rather decent, don’t you agree? You weren’t exactly expecting us or anyone else to be saying that about the 2016 football championship, were you?

A new campaign hopes to  tackle chronic pain as more than half of sufferers find it difficult to

It is arguably the most iconic sports photograph in the Irish Examiner archives. And, 64 years on, we’ve finally tracked down the Blood and Bandage Lady in the picture.

There has been a surge in popularity for all things dice writes Rita deBrún. But new gamers are moving away from most of the traditional favourites

Rita de Brún tries to catch up with Eamon Coghlan and the senior athletes featured on his TV series

It’s a celeb favourite but can mere mortals pull off powdery-hued hair? Katie Wright brushes up on the latest catwalk trend.

The sudden death of a mother of three, following childbirth, had stunned a whole parish, a priest said yesterday.

Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick has revealed the incredible moment a slaughterhouse returned his missing specs two years after he left them inside a cow’s belly.

A woman has said how her father's repeated abuse and rape of her as a young girl was “a defining experience in my life that framed everything that follows and continues”.

Rita Ora's new boyfriend Travis Barker still lives with his ex-wife.

“The kids are coming home” — Marian Fitzpatrick sang out the message the country had waited for, shortly after she got word from North Carolina that her grandchildren, Jack, 10, and Sarah, 8, were to be brought back to Ireland following a tortuous custody battle.

The twin brother of an Irishman killed in America earlier this month has paid tribute to the people of Limerick who turned out in their hundreds last night to show their solidarity.

Rita O’Driscoll is from Skibbereen, and works in her hometown as development manager of Uilinn, West Cork Arts Centre. She worked with AIB in Cork before joining her husband in a family business for 20 years and also studied interior design, followed by a BA in visual arts on Sherkin Island.

EVERY day is a school day — so says Rita Talty Ó Sé, wife of Today host Daithí Ó Sé, about her experience of motherhood.

The X Factor unveiled a “new generation” of judges after announcing that Radio 1 breakfast show host Nick Grimshaw and singer Rita Ora will join Simon Cowell and Cheryl Fernandez-Versini in the next series.

Ecuadorian designer Gabriela Cadena dressed Eva Longoria for the Inside Out premiere at Cannes this week, but the full-length trompe l’oeil panel on this gown is weird and distracting.

Your guide to tonight's television.

Your guide to tonight's TV programmes.

Going blind suddenly is not as uncommon as we think. But how do people cope, asks Rita de Brún.

Safer roads enable children to play, encourage people to cycle and walk and reduced speed limits would decrease the number of fatalities on Irish roads, writes Fergus Finlay.

The Irish court system is riven with prejudices that makes it almost impossible for victims of domestic violence to see justice done, writes Safe Ireland CEO Sharon O’Halloran