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

1,000 Irish Volunteers answered the call and turned out across Co Cork on Easter Sunday, writes Niall Murray

Storm Desmond caused the postponement of 11 of yesterday’s Munster Junior League games as only eight survived the weather.

Good Counsel (Wexford) 0-22 Midleton CBS (Cork) 0-15 (after extra-time)

CORK SFC Final

The last wishes of an Irish man killed in the New Zealand earthquake will be fulfilled today as he is laid to rest in his home soil.

A US global financial security firm is to create 117 jobs in the Shannon Free Zone over the next three months.

THE 104 staff of a copper-cable manufacturer will know within the next few hours whether or not they are to lose their jobs due to the company’s closure.

Union chiefs warned today there was only 24 hours to save a cabling business employing 104 people in the midlands.

IRELAND suffered the third-biggest drop in construction output in Europe over the past 12 months, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office.

As the Garda launches its knife awareness campaign, recent court cases offer a brief glimpse into the growing knife culture and underline the need to tackle it, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

An 18-year-old boy who fatally stabbed another teenager last year has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A south Dublin teenager has been found guilty of the fatal stabbing of another teenager outside his house on Waterloo Road by a jury at the Central Criminal Court.

The Central Criminal Court jury in the trial of a south teenager accused of murdering another teenager outside his house on Waterloo Road have been sent to a hotel for the night after almost two hours deliberation.

A teenager accused of murdering another teenager outside his house on Dublin's Waterloo Road, told gardaí he had not meant to stab the deceased man, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A south Dublin teenager, accused of the fatal stabbing of another teenager outside his house on Waterloo Road, suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A south Dublin teenager told gardaí that he had stabbed another teenager outside his house on Waterloo Road a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A witness has told a Central Criminal Court jury that he saw his friend fall to the ground after he had been fatally stabbed after a night out to celebrate leaving school.

A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a Dublin teenager accused of killing another student on Waterloo Road.

A schoolboy charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Leaving Certificate student last May was served with the book of evidence at the Dublin Children’s Court today.

A schoolboy charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Leaving Certificate student last May has been remanded by the Dublin Children’s Court pending the preparation of the book of evidence in the case.

A schoolboy was today charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Leaving Certificate student last May.

All 280 staff at Glanbia Meats have been offered alternative employment, the company said tonight.

GLANBIA management yesterday announced it will re-employ 60 staff full time and 160 others on a part-time basis after fire gutted the plant in Co Offaly.

Pig processing at Glanbia meat factory which was severely damaged by a weekend blaze will be transferred to a different factory, it emerged today.

A schoolboy, who has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Leaving Certificate student last weekend, has been remanded on bail to allow gardaí to prepare a file on the case for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Detectives are tonight searching for two men who tried to aid a teenager stabbed to death in the early hours of Saturday.

SIPTU has called on the Tanaiste and the IDA to find an immediate replacement for a Co Mayo car components plant that is to close with the loss of about 220 jobs.