A mother, whose second child was born in traumatic circumstances and later required resuscitation at Cavan General Hospital, has told an inquiry she wants to save other families from the same experience.

Bertram Allen had another lucrative outing in the Global Champions Tour on Saturday, placing third in the €400,000 second leg in Mexico City.

Alicia Vikander wore a sparkly Louis Vuitton gown to the British Independent Film Awards in London. 

Q: "If you don't have a boosting budget what ways can you break through the Facebook algorithm and boost the reach of your posts?" Roland Baldwin Triskle Arts Centre

Cinderella was not a Disney character I saw Dita Von Teese channeling. 

James Kent’s film about a great peace campaigner goes beyond the cliches of the trenches, writes Ed Power

A man has been found guilty by a UK court of battering his ex-partner to death with a hammer and slashing his young daughter’s throat weeks after he was reported to police for making threats.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's friends warned them against making By the Sea.

There are fears that rats are becoming an increasing problem in Dublin after a rodent described as being "2ft long" was caught at a house in Tallaght.

The search for a Dutch tourist missing since last Saturday resumes today after the body of his friend was taken from the sea off the West Cork coast yesterday.

A clumsy yet kind-hearted boy on the cusp of adulthood discovers heroism comes from within, during Manuel Sicilia’s computer-animated adventure.

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I’M sure I wasn’t the only woman who shuddered when she heard that Waterford Regional Hospital had sought a court order to compel a pregnant woman to have a caesarean section last Saturday.

Castlehaven coach James McCarthy said it was a great decision to bring yesterday’s Munster club SFC quarter-final to Clonakilty and hopes the semi-final will be played there also.

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Loose Connections by Rosemary Hayes (Frances Lincoln; €8.35).

IT was an afternoon of firsts at yesterday’s well-attended Dungarvan Harriers point-to-point meeting at Kilossera as riders’ Paul Kiely, Daragh Howard and Michael Roche all attained their initial career victories.

Russia 6 USA 13

The perfect example of a film that never required re-making, especially since the new version turns out to be such a clunking disappointment. You cannot improve on perfection.

Aniston once again appears in a light as air, fluffy as a cloud romcom that gives her no boundaries to explore other than to be Aniston, in yet another inoffensive little film that trickles along a plotline so silly it’s hardly worth getting worked up about.

Gardaí are appealing for help in tracing a 38-year-old German man who was last seen leaving the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin yesterday.

THE victim’s of the state fishery board’s single worst tragedy are to be remembered this weekend.

MICHELLE Mitchell’s chances of fulfilling her dream to study at third-level could be dashed unless a Government cutback is reversed.

IRELAND imposes the longest prison sentences for drugs offences in Europe, according to the EU drugs agency.

TEENAGERS, are you fed up with hearing that you’re wasting your time on “that computer”? Tired of being asked how “all those music gadgets are going to get you a job”?

Richard Collins on a pioneering mind almost lost to history.

ANDY JENKINS produced his best performance in 13 years of competing at the highest level to knock Adrian Lewis out of the Ladbrokes.com World Championship in Purfleet yesterday.

Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor won the inaugural 888.com Premier League Darts title after breezing past world number one Colin ‘Jaws’ Lloyd 16-4.

A woman was being questioned tonight about the murder of an American backpacker outside a Belfast hostel.

IRISH referee Alain Rolland will take charge of the Heineken Cup semi-final between Leicester and Toulouse at the Walkers Stadium on April 24.

Italy were this afternoon forced to make two late changes for tomorrow’s RBS Six Nations match against England at Twickenham.

Top seed Colin Lloyd produced an astonishing fightback tonight to keep alive his hopes of winning the Ladbrokes.com World Championship at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet.

The niece of a man shot in the back at a family funeral has said she was "in fear of her life" when gunmen opened fire outside a Sligo cemetery, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

London Irish have bolstered their injury-hit back-row resources with the signing of Scottish international Roland Reid.

An Australian skydiver who was injured in a jump off China’s tallest skyscraper has been hospitalised in intensive care, a doctor said today.

Austria coach Hans Krankl has named former Premiership goalkeepers Jurgen Macho and Alex Manninger in his 23-man squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Poland and Northern Ireland.

Juan Pablo Montoya has accused Michael Schumacher of receiving preferential treatment following the latest dust-up between the duelling duo.

Sale 0 Biarritz 15

Tears For Fears are to release their first single in 14 years in March.

Denis Ovens came through a potentially tricky encounter with Dave Askew to set up a second-round clash with Roland Scholten at the Paddy Power World Grand Prix in Dublin tonight.

Confined to their orbiting capsule at least until April in the wake of the Columbia accident, the three men aboard the international space station are putting a brave face on their predicament.