The RDS Exhibition Hall was bursting at the seams as the annual BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition got under way last week.

A rave experience needn’t be about late nights and loads of drugs, writes Ellie O’Byrne, as she meets organisers and attendees at an event aimed at kids and parents.

Ciara McDonnell talks to four high-profile people about their festive traditions and favourite tracks

Former La Stampa restaurant owner, Louis Murray, has denied in the High Court he tried to deceive the bank to whom he owed €19.8m, by not telling them that he had a "stunning penthouse apartment" in Marbella, Spain.

Lyra McKee's partner has said that those who killed the woman she was going to marry are "no better than paedophiles".

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said that if there was the political will the issues that led to the fall of the Stormont Assembly could be “sorted out in one hour.”

She broke down barriers in a divided community in Northern Ireland, mourners at her funeral were told.

This is the full and unedited address by Father Martin Magill at the funeral of Lyra Catherine McKee in St Anne’s Cathedral Belfast this afternoon.

“A lot of people were standing... including children.” Eyewitness Emmet Doyle, recounting what happened in Derry on Thursday night, said he saw the young woman being shot.

Just three months ago, Lyra McKee wrote on social media about how happy her life was at that point - especially thanks to her partner Sara.

Tributes have been paid to 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee who was shot dead during riots in Derry last night.

Arlene Harris talks to mums about the challenges and joys of rearing a large family

A Leaving Cert student from Galway has appealed for help with her legal status so she can attend university.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has used a prime-time address to again dismiss a series of corruption allegations against him.

The 17-year-old achieved the feat when she navigated for her dad in the Imokilly Stages Rally in Co Cork.

Teenager Sara McFadden has become the first visually impaired person to compete in Irish rallying.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman, Sean FitzPatrick, had a €22m pension fund from Anglo Irish Bank when he retired as CEO in 2005, he told the High Court.

SARA Byrne has had three major surgeries to bring her inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) under control, but she has reason to be hopeful.

One of Netflix's most anticipated series has released a new trailer and it has us ready to feel bleak all over again.

More than 2.5 million people in Europe have irritable bowel syndrome. Now, an Irish study aims to find out more, writes Áilín Quinlan

Families were treated as irritants rather than members of the wider Olympic family, writes Michael Clifford.

An Israeli court on Sunday ordered a journalist to pay more than €21,600 in damages to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara for libelling them.

Of vital importance to everyone involved in making the drama is that “the public really understand how grooming works”, writes Susan Griffin

Pascoe argues that women are merely animals with very large 40,000 year old brains. The fat on our bottoms has evolved for pleasing males so why, she asks, do we hate it so?

After the stunning success of her first book, West Cork-based writer Sara Baume returns with a more personal, experimental novel. She talks to Sue Leonard

Three suspects in a thwarted attack last week in the southern French city of Montpellier have been handed preliminary terrorism charges, Paris prosecutors said.

Catrin Pugh, 22, is believed to be the oldest person in the world to survive such severe burns which ravaged every inch of her body apart from her scalp and the soles of her feet.

Nurse Sara Childers decided on a rather unusual way of quitting her job at the Western State Hospital in the US state of Washington.

In a refugee camp outside Athens, Victoria White meets people fleeing the horrors of war in Syria, but who still try to live a normal life, including a young woman who has just married    

Midnight Special 4/5

Even floods of near biblical proportions couldn’t stop one determined nonagenarian from attending Mass in Offaly.

A FAMILY held together not by love but by habit are at the uncomfortable centre of this thoroughly well-written novel.

Cheltenham Gold Cup hero Coneygree will miss Saturday’s Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury after failing to sparkle in a schooling session yesterday.