Meet some of the remarkable students who are top of the class when it comes to school attendance — with more than 800 years of unbroken school attendance between them.

A Cork bar has defended its door policies after it received a torrent of criticism after it asked a man with Down syndrome to provide age identification, even though he was with his parents, who emphasised that he is 21.

A hurler, footballer, greyhound enthusiast, horseracing fan, and, most of all, a loving and proud family man.

There were tears of joy in Rosaleen Rafter’s home when the Health Service Executive confirmed that it will repay the cost of a life-changing drug for people with multiple sclerosis.

Anne Enright’s latest novel The Green Road is set on that great Irish battleground — the family. She spoke to Caroline O’Doherty about the institution and all its foibles — and trying to be an inspiring teacher.

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The Queen didn’t do a parachute jump, but Limerick yesterday exuded a spectacular summer glow for the opening of the Special Olympic Ireland Games.

It took just five seconds for 2014 to welcome its newest arrival, a beautiful girl who was due 14 days ago but held on long enough to capture the headlines.

SLIM and trim, actor Bryan Murray seems an unlikely poster boy for the Irish Heart Foundation’s Heart Month. Despite the 64-year-old Fair City star’s healthy lifestyle and regular medical check-ups, he was diagnosed with high cholesterol four years ago.

Over the course of almost half a century, Liam Sammon has been in service to Galway football. Now he hopes a new generation can restore county pride.

A retired Dublin property investor and his wife are suing AIB over the alleged misselling to them of financial derivatives in notional amounts of about €45m.

This Cork writer is saving over €5,000 every year and is now passing on his secrets, says Colette Sheridan

World No 1 golfer Rory McIlroy’s image and marketing rights firm has recorded pre-tax profits of €1.37m in its first year of operation.

A new family-run funeral home is to open in Cork City, the first such business to start from the ground up in several decades.

Edna O’Brien’s 1960 novel The Country Girls was banned. Now she has adapted it for the stage, she tells Carl Dixon

MUHAMMAD ALI met up with his Irish kinfolk yesterday when Ennis, home town of his great grandfather, Abe Grady welcomed back one of its own.

Those who followed the market on family day at Newbury cashed in when Recession Proof bolted-up in the Bathwick Tyres Amateur Riders' Handicap today.

MULTIPLE Group One winner Lush Lashes is set to return to the scene of one of her finest triumphs for Wednesday’s Windsor Forest Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Multiple Group One winner Lush Lashes is set to return to the scene of one of her finest triumphs for Wednesday’s Windsor Forest Stakes at Royal Ascot.

MOURNERS at the tear-filled funeral of a couple who died in a road accident were reminded by a priest of the need for organ donors.

Supporters of leading stanjamesuk.com 1000 Guineas hope Spacious received a boost after her galloping companion Cesare recorded back-to-back wins in the Britain’s Got Talent Paradise Stakes at Ascot.

Fresh from finishing third in the National Hunt trainers’ championship, Alan King sent out his first Group winner on the level as Shipmaster landed the Woodcote Stud Sagaro Stakes at Ascot.

THE gift of a site by Gaelic football legend Mick O’Connell and his wife, Rosaleen, has helped provide Valentia, Co Kerry, with a €1.2 million home for six people with special needs who from the area.

“I REALLY don’t know what I will do now,” said bewildered Dublin woman Rosaleen Hickey, one of 40 mothers who protested yesterday over the axing of childcare funding for adult education students.

AFTER feigning modesty all his career, the truth has finally emerged about Niall Quinn — he always had an MBE in mind.

GARDAÍ are continuing to investigate the suspicious death of a 32-year-old woman who was found lying at the bottom of a stairs with head and neck injuries.

ROSIE BYRNE’S eyes say it all. They have to. She can’t speak.