A high-flying engineering student is blazing a trail across the Atlantic after being awarded a prestigious €50,000 scholarship to America.

Hundreds of people have attended the removal of Bryan Whelan tonight following his tragic death last Saturday.

Your guide to the best of tonight's telly.

Here's our guide to the best of tonight's TV.

Actress Tessa James undergoes chemo after disgnosis.

Killing Them Softly ****

Based on the book 'Before I Die' by Jenny Downham, 'Now Is Good' is a touching drama about two teenagers united in the shadow of terminal illness, written and directed for the screen by Ol Parker.

A Year’s Midnight

Dara Torres is headed back to Florida to watch the Olympics on TV, like a lot of middle-aged folks.

TRAGIC Irish teenager Phoebe Prince felt like she was in a movie when she first arrived at her American high school last September.

BULLIES who drove a 15-year-old Co Clare teenager to take her own life posted vindictive messages on a Facebook site dedicated to her memory.

Sophie Dahl has married Jamie Cullum.

Rachel Weisz picked up a deserved Oscar this week for her role in The Constant Gardener (Universal, €21.99), in which she plays Tessa, a human rights campaigner and wife of minor diplomat Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes).

LITTLE Molly Hogan does not know it yet but she has already made a little bit of history by being named the first baby of 2006.

Why can’t a country, which reported an Exchequer surplus of €272m recently, look after its most vulnerable, wonders Catherine Shanahan.

Guinness Book of Records founder Norris McWhirter has died aged 78 after suffering a heart attack, his family announced today.

YESTERDAY’S landmark High Court settlement, making a regional health board responsible for providing a profoundly disabled nine-year-old boy with the support he needs to live at home with his mother, will be applauded by families of disabled people from one end of the country to the other.