Thanks to better diagnostics, improved surgery techniques, and targeted drug therapy, more and more people are surviving cancer.

Somewhere his mother was, no doubt, asking for someone to give her strength.

Kids often have to make their own entertainment at weddings.

This letter is an urgent appeal from 14 organisations who work with children to call on An Taoiseach to show leadership on the issue of child homelessness.

MANY people ask me how I managed to evoke such a vivid sense of what it’s like to be a teenage girl in both of my novels. It’s easy.

European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy has said he did nothing wrong in appointing a failed party election candidate as his ministerial driver — claiming being an ex-politician should not stop someone from gaining work.

A Dublin man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for what was described today as the “brutal murder” of his uncle in 2013.

Mortal Kombat X will be released this week, complete with a slew of characters that you will have to pay for. However, you will be able to sample these characters through the Challenge Towers mode.

Love, Tanya will be released on January 22 but is already taking the pre-sale charts by storm.

We’ve got a feeling it could go a little like this …

The wife of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has told a judge of her “extremely distressing” discovery that her father and brother were “systematically defrauding” her husband.

The wife of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has told a judge of her “extremely distressing” discovery that her father and brother were “systematically defrauding” her husband.

The HSE has unreservedly apologised for shortcomings in the management and care of a 31-year-old woman whose cancer went undiagnosed for nine months.

Jo Joyner's dramatic 'EastEnders' storylines drained her.

IT was Nov 17, 1982, when my Mum, Maureen Fox, stood at the end of Academy Street to begin her blindfolded walk with guide dog, Goldie. This week, I stood in the same spot, and wondered whether Mum had been as nervous as I was.

Name: Tanya McGilligan

Name: Tanya Airey

Jack Black waited 15 years to ask his wife on a date.

I do, yeah! It’s the wedding of the year that has the whole parish talking but there’ll be no ‘living happily ever after’.

A woman has been given a life sentence after being convicted of murdering her husband by stabbing him 61 times.

DUBLIN plays host to Jessica Sturgess’s debut exhibition this month.

What happens when your daughter enters a competition in your name without telling you?

Forget the clichéd sugar daddy image — rich, middle aged men now log on to find young women.

Like all Olympians, eventer Mark Kyle, has weighed up his and his team’s prospects in terms of probabilities and possibilities.

'EastEnders' star Jo Joyner has promised there will be plenty of drama in store for the Branning family.

'EastEnders' has reportedly lost six million viewers.

A former DJ has invented a GPS tracking device that is giving huge comfort to carers of vulnerable people, says Claire Droney.

Jo Joyner admits her cancer storyline in 'EastEnders' is taking its toll on her emotions.

A MAN who shot his partner and two other women before killing himself had his guns taken from him by police three years ago amid concerns for the state of his mind, it has emerged.

GOING on a weekend break with a surfer, a toddler and a bump takes a special kind of optimism.

A CONSULTANT obstetrician and gynaecologist is facing a Medical Council fitness to practise inquiry over the care he gave to a young woman who died from cancer two years ago.

HUNDREDS of postal workers yesterday paid a poignant farewell to their Limerick colleague who died last Thursday when his mail delivery bike collided with a vehicle on his morning round.

A SPECIAL fund has been established in honour of the late Examiner journalist Maureen Fox to help train a newborn guide dog.

THE death has taken place of one of the best-known and most popular female journalists in the south of Ireland.

SEPARATED at last but together forever – Ireland’s miracle twins showed last night that they will forever share a special bond.

WEXFORD hurler Greg Jacob has become an internet phenomenon, being hailed as a legend for his off-field antics.

Vinnie Jones gets star-struck by his celebrity neighbours.

WITH a loud cry, the first Irish baby of the decade arrived at Waterford Regional Hospital at 28 seconds past midnight.

Mary Haines (Meg Ryan) is a successful, part-time fashion designer with a handsome Wall Street husband Stephen, a 12-year-old daughter Molly (India Ennenga) and a coterie of loyal friends: women’s magazine editor Sylvie (Annette Bening), clucky mother hen Edie (Debra Messing) and sassy lesbian author Alex (Jada Pink Smith).