IT’S difficult not to be moved by the trails and triumphs of the leaders from Operation Transformation. And RTÉ presenter John Murray is no exception.

There was real drama in the final of the Gain Feeds Select Stakes on Saturday night at Waterford, from which the tremendously consistent Southest Suzie emerged victorious for Daniel Frayne of Wexford.

Kelly Brook admits her whirlwind romance with fiance David McIntosh has caught her by surprise and described the engagement as “the most humbling, beautiful moment” of her life.

IT was the worst thing she ever did as a doctor and it has haunted her every day of the last 15 years.

Campaign to raise funds for Temple Street Hospital will ease strain for parents like Jean Moody, who has two sons with cystic fibrosis, says Helen O’Callaghan.

Former All-Ireland SFC winner Barry Cahill has decided to call time on his inter-county football career after 11 years in the Dublin jersey.

Tricolours erected to mark Ireland reaching the finals of the Euro 2012 Championship still hang on many buildings on the main street of Blessington.

The funeral has taken place of James Nolan in Co Wicklow.

Love hurts, though not too badly, in Nicholas Stoller’s romantic comedy about a doe-eyed couple whose rose-tinted dreams of marital bliss are undone by the pressures of everyday life.

Conor Horgan’s feature film debut doesn’t follow the usual script for an apocalyptic tale, writes Pádraic Killeen

Irish interest in the Ryder Cup doesn’t stop at the three players and the two vice-captains. There’s also a trio of bagmen keeping their employers on the short grass. Charlie Mulqueen explains

AN unemployed construction worker who microwaved his “favourite” hamster to death was jailed for nine weeks yesterday.

ELIZABETH MURPHY who received a liver transplant when she was just four and a half months old will celebrate her third birthday this Easter.

Edmund Hillary, the man who conquered Mount Everest, will be given a state funeral, the New Zealand government said today.

A COUPLE of hours after his victory in the Irish Open, Padraig Harrington was signing autographs for admirers when a lady asked him if he was going back to Dublin.

THE Bank Holiday weekend kicked off, literally, yesterday as the largest Sevens tournament in the northern hemisphere got underway.

A THIEF who stole a urinal from a pub toilet is being hunted by police in Britain.

Transexual housemate Sam was evicted from the Big Brother house tonight making way for a new golden housemate.

TWO sisters who once sought the help of a teen magazine “agony aunt” in a desperate bid to end their sexual abuse nightmare stood at the front of yesterday’s demonstration outside the Dáil.

A Los Angeles police commander today defended the actions of officers who killed a young girl in a shoot-out with her father, one of three stand-offs in the past nine months in which officers killed suspects holding hostages.

IT wasn’t a very pleasant day at City West. The Irish rugby team arrived back drenched to the skin after their session down the N7 at Naas.

THE meal that poisoned a group of senior All Blacks before the 1995 Rugby World Cup final was eaten at a restaurant outside the team hotel, a hotel executive has claimed.

THE playing fields have been marked, the beer tents are up and tournament director Ronan Kett is confident it’s all systems go for tomorrow’s big kick-off to the Heineken Kinsale Sevens.