A new exhibition in UCC has artists responding to the Tuam Babies scandal and the situation at Bessborough, writes Donal O’Keeffe

The Cope Foundation offers an employment support service which aims to connect young people who have intellectual disabilities with employers. Donal O’Keeffe meets three people who are benefitting from the scheme.

John Deady proposed to Aoife Hennessy as they enjoyed a visit to Killarney National Park, in December 2017, and they returned as newlyweds to Kerry this year to toast to their future together.

Dr Padraig Carney, the star of Mayo’s All-Ireland winning football teams of 1950 and ‘51, died in California today, aged 91, after a short illness.

Wheeler women from Ennistymon, Co Clare have been protesting visiting US Presidents here for nearly forty years.

When Taron Egerton watched Rocketman with an audience for the first time, it was at one of the biggest entertainment events of the year — the Cannes Film Festival.

A memorial service is to be on Monday for a father-of-one who died just hours after summiting the world’s highest mountain.

A bachelor farmer had the legal and mental ability and was not subject to undue influence when he made a will leaving his entire holding to one of his nephews, the High Court ruled.

‘I’ve been poked and prodded but no one has seen me about my diet,’ one cancer patient tells Feelgood.

Over the next few years, we will find ourselves in a whirlwind of War of Independence centenary commemorations. It was a nationwide fight for freedom and here the rebel streets of Cork city heaved with revolution.

A sister of a farmer whose will is being contested believes a solicitor got his instructions for the will from another sister whose son was left the entire 54-acre farm in Wexford.

There was deep sadness in League of Ireland circles yesterday following the news that former Shamrock Rovers chairman Joe Colwell had died on Christmas Day.

Dermot Bolger felt strange portraying himself in his latest novel but, he tells Sue Leonard, it was a necessary bridge into his second novel about the extraordinary Sheila Fitzgerald

A man wearing a Scream mask raided a sweet shop in Cork city and yesterday was sentenced to five years in jail with half of it suspended.

A ‘Scream’ mask was worn by a man who carried out a robbery at a sweetshop in Cork city and yesterday he confessed to the crime.

The partners of Defence Forces members are holding a 24-hour vigil outside Leinster House.

One of the most beloved Cork family businesses of the past two decades, the Alternative Bread Company (ABC) in the English Market, celebrates its 20th birthday on Saturday -- with Cork Simon Community taking the day’s proceeds.

Ellie O’Byrne meets the people behind an end of life conference, including keynote speaker Jenny Kitzinger, the academic breaking the taboo around dying.

Conor Healy got a real blast of nostalgia one day when he was browsing through postcards at a shop in Youghal.

A Clare bride has been left devastated after a mix up that saw another bride take home her wedding veil, writes Ciara Phelan.

The wife of one of the pilots killed in the Rescue 116 helicopter crash off the coast of Co Mayo last March has issued an open letter thanking the public for their support.

Donegal boss Micheál Naughton has spoken about how football is helping him to cope following his brother’s recent death.

Monday morning and I’m at home, returning a Whatsapp call from my mother that kept dropping earlier this morning.

Michael Clifford reports on the increasing nervousness among residents of buildings constructed during the boom years that the ‘light touch’ regulations of the time have left their lives in danger

The wife of the late Anthony Foley said the response to a campaign initiated by her son Tony, 11, following the passing of the Munster and Ireland legend has been an “unforgettable experience of solidarity”.

It was the type of reunion the rugby fraternity never thought would happen.

Hardened Munster men, more used to roaring on their rugby heroes into battle, openly wept outside the hallowed turf of Thomond Park at the loss of their leader, friend, and comrade “Axel” Foley.

Anthony Foley was last night described as “the embodiment of Munster Rugby” whose legacy would live on for generations to come.

The great Munster rugby teams of the early years of the millennium were renowned as hard men who never backed off a challenge. 

Cobh mother Sheila Devlin Mulligan tells Olivia Kelleher about her life raising two children with Angelman’s Syndrome

Dan McCarthy speaks to the people taking over at the new An Oige hostel as it moves to Wellington Road.

It’s the first time I’ve seen indie art rock pop band Foals perform live and I can’t help but feel excited. 

Several years ago, while raising six offspring and also working with husband Denis in their shared business, Sheila Kiely found the time to write (and photograph!) her first cookbook, Gimme the Recipe, and the follow-up, Enjoy! Food You’ll Love (Mercier Press) has hit the shelves.

And the story has gone viral.

A Maynooth restaurant’s gesture to an 12-year-old boy and his family has gone viral this week after being shared on Facebook.

PJ Mara was the most famous political spin doctor in modern Irish history, having played a leading role in Fianna Fáil for more than 30 years.

For more than 40 years she cared for a legendary Co Cork church.

Could Ardal O’Hanlon’s new comedy on Sky really exorcise the ghosts of Father Ted? He’s not bothered either way, writes Keeley Bolger