Four top Irish artists have been shortlisted for the Savills Arts Prize, to be presented at Vue 2017, Ireland’s national contemporary art fair.

Ireland 4 Israel 0: Reece Grego-Cox felt honoured to escalate Ireland’s U21 European Championship qualification crusade yesterday against Israel.

Republic of Ireland's U21s continued their unbeaten run in the European Championship qualifiers with an impressive 4-0 win over Israel today.

Farmers from Uganda will be at the National Ploughing Championships as part of a fact-finding mission.

“The muffin top: not only is it insulating but who else can lay this comfortably on a stone floor without the help of these babies,”

The couple in their late 50s did not know of their granddaughter's existence until she was six months old and had already been placed with a family that wanted to adopt her.

Emperor Haile Selassie, ‘the conquering lion of the tribe of Judah’ and a direct descendant of Solomon, was an animal lover. Lions were taken from the wild in Ethiopia for his private menagerie.

In the Ireland I grew up in, we had an identity, we had sovereignty, we had white skin and not a whole lot else, writes Terry Prone

USA: First responders preparing to take the body of a Milwaukee man pronounced dead to the morgue got a jolt when the man suddenly began moving and noticeably breathing.

A computer programme that is usually used to draw up e-fits of wanted criminals has been used to create the faces of the most beautiful man and woman in the world.

Half a pint of beer a day may help to keep heart failure away, research has shown.

Wednesday night, upstairs, and my husband is resurrecting his Spiderman Scuttle - something to do with muscle flexion, I seem to remember - which involves scampering sideways, like a crab, back and forth across our bouncy floor-boards so that the bed shakes.

 

The Government’s expert report into how the medical card system can be reformed is set to be handed to Health Minister Leo Varadkar by the end of this month.

It will prove hard to create a ‘hierarchy of illnesses’, says Varadkar, tempering expectations of a quick fix, writes Political Editor Mary Regan

In retrospect, the Bertie Bowl would have avoided the debacle.

USA:An Indiana woman is under investigation after her husband’s corpse was left in their home for more than nine months and fed on by birds, authorities said.

A Florida mother who shot her two teenage children in the head says she knows what she did — but not why she did it.

A Florida mother who shot her two teenage children in the head says she knows what she did – but not why she did it.

An overwhelming 70% of voters want the Government to abandon its plans to erect giant pylons across the country, a survey reported last weekend revealed.

The HSE is to carry out an urgent inspection of lifts across the country following the death of a three-year-old boy in Galway.

The distraught mother of the 3-year-old boy tragically killed in a lift shaft broke down yesterday as she recalled the moments leading up to the tragedy.

The three-year-old boy who died in a lift shaft in Galway yesterday has been named locally as Solomon Soremekun.

12 Years a Slave *****

The grandmother of the “White Widow” being hunted in connection with the Kenyan shopping centre massacre has been admitted to hospital because of stress.

Robert Heffernan’s medal chances have been significantly enhanced with the withdrawal of Russian Olympic champion Sergey Kirdyapkin for this morning’s 50km race walk at the World Championships in Moscow and double 50km Olympian Colin Griffin believes the Corkman is on course for a treasured medal.

We would all like our judges to have the wisdom of Solomon and the humanity to match that enviable erudition, but, even if they did, it is unlikely that every decision made by one, especially around sentencing, would be universally supported.

THE art collection of the man who first recorded Rory Gallagher and Van Morrison forms the backbone of Whyte’s sale of Irish and British art at the RDS next Monday at 6pm.

THE email was welcome, because emails from this individual are always welcome.

‘The buck always stops with the manager’

Geography test

Benedict Cumberbatch has joined the cast of 'Twelve Years a Slave'.

Kerry Katona has defended smoking mother-to-be Stacey Solomon by claiming it does not count because she only smokes low-tar cigarettes.

Stacey Solomon thinks she "deserves" to be criticised for smoking while pregnant.

At the very moment when rebuilding a can-do, positive image for Ireland is critical, yesterday’s refusal of planning permission by An Bord Pleanála for a National Children’s Hospital on the Mater Hospital site in Dublin, was another kick in the teeth for anyone who wants, but struggles every day, to believe that this small, often dysfunctional Republic, has a bright future.

'I’m A Celebrity' star Stacey Solomon has revealed she is pregnant with her second child.

THE shame when a county doesn’t go on to win the All-Ireland is it can forget what got it within touching distance of winning the All-Ireland in the first place.

For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system's smallest and strangest planet, Mercury.

AFTER umpteen years of unfettered excess, is there any possibility that a majority of our newly-elected TDs have learned that personal ambition, greed and self-aggrandisement has proven to be the wrong option?

A man in Nassau is suing authorities after a rodent bit his penis while he was in a jail cell.

Stacey Solomon and Shaun Ryder are to release a Christmas single together.