“I think I have gained three more daughters. What we were able to do for them was a gift we gratefully accepted.”

Girls in their tweens and teens are facing complex challenges and need guidance about what really matters — their self-worth. Helen O’Callaghan reports.

She's regretting it now.

One of the joys of childhood is the lack of responsibility, aside from school. Not so for the 4,000 children who are carers. Arlene Harris meets one.

A court has heard that a man who is trying to withdraw his guilty plea for the murder of an elderly man in Dublin has been assessed by a psychiatrist.

A middleaged man from Cork has been left battered and bruised after drunken young people assaulted him on his own doorstep this weekend, repeatedly kicking him in the head and eventually leaving him in a pool of his own blood.

THE Marble Collector opens with a memory. Sabrina Bloggs, aged three, watches as her mother launches the teapot at the ceiling. 

Cecelia Ahern was concerned that having babies would make writing impossible. But, as Hannah Stephenson discovers, she needn’t have worried

A 37-year-old woman has been found guilty of murdering a man she said was "like a Dad to her" at a senior citizens’ complex in Dublin on January 6, last year.

Melissa Joan Hart - better known to many as Sabrina or Clarissa - mentioned a beloved Irish duo in a tweet yesterday: the Rubberbandits.

A large group of family and friends paid tribute to a “kind, sincere gentleman”, Christopher ‘Jackie’ Barry, as he was laid to rest in Cobh, Co Cork, yesterday.

Tributes have been paid to the “quiet and unassuming” Cork man Jack Barry who was brutally stabbed to death in front of his girlfriend outside their apartment in London over the weekend.

A teenager suffering from cancer has been named Ireland’s young carer of the year at an awards ceremony yesterday.

An 11-year-old girl is today recovering after heroically saving the life of her infant cousin during what is believed to have been a petrol-bomb attack on their grandmother's Waterford home around 9.20pm yesterday.

A crow that has been landing on school children’s heads and waking people up by pecking on their windows, has been given his own Facebook page.

Michael Winters has busy summer plans for his two stable stars Missunited and Rebel Fitz, with both Royal Ascot and the Galway Festival on the agenda.

A mother who has been living in a hotel after it was found she had been living in her car with three young children, has until next week to find accommodation.

A homeless mother-of-three who has been sleeping in a car with her children has said a private citizen has offered to put them up in a hotel.

The Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said she is horrified and “deeply disturbed” that a woman and her three children are forced to live in a car because they cannot find accommodation.

A Tallaght family has been reduced to sleeping in their car as they are unable to get emergency accommodation.

A brother and sister have appeared in court charged with the murder of 63-year-old Thomas Horan at his home in Irishtown in Dublin.

President Michael D Higgins has said he will use his presidency to encourage the widest possible discussion of ethics in an effort to move Ireland beyond a version of society that had brought so much hardship and sacrifice.

On an afternoon when the last two winners of the Galway Hurdle, Rebel Fitz and Missunited, both trained by Michael Winters, were paraded, it was appropriate that Anshan Dreams should land the Cork Handicap Hurdle at Cork yesterday.

A British poker champion has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for the murder of his wife in America 16 years ago.

Success eluded Cian O’Connor in London Olympia’s two feature classes at the weekend, following a lucrative visit to the festive showcase.

Let’s face it ladies, growing a baby is hard work.

Not since Sam Fox teamed up with Sabrina has there been a more striking double D partnership.

SHOW jumper Dermott Lennon moved to 11th in the World Cup’s Western European League yesterday when third with Hallmark Elite in a hard-fought contest at London’s Olympia.

CONTRASTING fortunes defined the opening day for Ireland’s World Cup challengers, with Billy Twomey finishing 16th in the first of three finals and Denis Lynch suffering elimination.

A quality arthouse horror from Mexico that not only delivers the chills and churned stomach but plenty of swipes at society, all in a slimmed-down style that never detracts.

AS gardaí continue the search for his killers, the family of teenager Daniel McAnaspie hit out at the HSE, claiming he might still be alive if adequate care had been provided for him.

A MAN was remanded in custody last night over the killing of a mother-of-one in Co Kildare.

GARDAÍ have launched a murder investigation after a young Kildare mother was stabbed to death in her bed following a domestic row.

A murder investigation was under way tonight after a mother-of-one was stabbed to death.

A BRITISH poker champion accused of killing his wife then spending her money during a “playboy” weekend in Las Vegas fears he faces the death penalty in the US, a court heard yesterday.

AN eight-year-old boy whose beaming grin became an icon of hope in the search for Haiti earthquake survivors spoke of his incredible escape yesterday as British search teams prepared to return home.

Singer Sabrina Washington tonight became the latest person to leave the I’m a Celebrity jungle.

IF RUBY WALSH would later be left to reflect on the loss of his Gold Cup crown, there was still much evidence available yesterday that when he is provided with the right equipment, he can exploit it like few other jockeys ever can.

Rapper 50 Cent credits his son Marquis for making him abandon his life of crime and focus on writing his music.