From Christmas Day swims to Christmas tree flings, there’s no excuse to be a couch potato this festive season, with lots on offer to get you and your loved ones up, out, and on the move, writes Susan O’Shea.

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen talk to Laura Harding to talk about the seemingly impossible task of producing an ‘unfilmable’ musical.

The sister of missing Kildare man Trevor Deely has described some of the online speculation about her brother's disappearance as “outrageous” and she called for it to be toned down “several notches.”

“Everything does happen for a reason,” says Ann-Marie McGlynn, and when you trace the path of the 39-year-old’s career, it’s hard to disagree.

Childhood sweethearts Michaela Murphy and Trevor Keating were well placed to enjoy a stylish wedding celebration considering the bride is an interior design architect.

For the first time in 30 years I was back at Fota Wildlife Park. How can so much time have elapsed between visits?

Rob Gandola, senior science officer with the Herpetological Society of Ireland (HSI) has told of the importance of having a common toad in captivity to determine their impact on native wildlife populations.

The former publisher of The Dubliner magazine and food critic, Trevor White, has resolved a High Court dispute with a financial fund which will allow him to keep his family home.

Publisher and food critic Trevor White has pulled out of moves to seek a personal insolvency arrangement to deal with his debts, the High Court has heard.

Dundalk head coach Vinny Perth says he expects Chris Shields will keep getting better after the powerhouse midfielder signed a new deal at the club.

The father of Trevor Deely has told how he refuses to abandon his dream that his missing son will one day walk back through the front door of his family home.

Swapping the hoops and green shirts of Páirc Uí Chaoimh from earlier in the day for uniform black tie in City Hall later that night, it was quite the parade of football luminaries who took to the stage to pay further tribute to Liam Miller at the gala dinner in his honour last Tuesday.

Cork County Council will today seek a court injunction either compelling the occupants of a mobile home in the middle of a housing estate to leave the area or granting the local authority the power to remove them.

Daniel Brennan, all 6ft3in and 20 stone of him, sits in a small chair in the courtyard of the vineyard where the French U20 team are staying outside Narbonne, and tries to rattle off his phone number before realising he can’t do it in English.

Ireland, ever-present in the tournament since it started in Wales in 2008, will face a baptism of fire this evening when they open their World Rugby U20 Championship campaign against France at Stade Aime Giral.

Romain Ntamack, son of former French star Emile, led the way as France opened their Six Nations campaign with a win but only after they held off a spirited Irish recovery.

A Sinn Féin Senator has left the party over what he described as "serious breaches" of conduct and "unacceptable behaviour" in his constituency party.

The search for Trevor Deely's remains at a site in Chapelizod in Dublin has concluded with nothing found.

It was a noise unlike anything I had heard before — a cacophonous racket of cheers, screams and thuds all blended together in a two-minute symphony. It built and built to one euphoric eruption, and once it happened all you could do was stand there in awe, aware once again that for all its flaws, there is nothing quite so invigorating as sport.

A husband and wife wept as they recalled bringing their baby home in a tiny white coffin after his death from a devastating brain injury suffered during birth.

Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley will give Luke Byrne every chance to prove his fitness ahead of tonight’s clash with Stjarnan in Reykjavik.

Got a problem? Ask Audrey...

A three-year jail term was imposed yesterday on a man who fractured another man’s skull with a samurai sword.

For the Mitchell family, the last two years have been a labour of love, as they worked tirelessly to restore a 1926 Cork-built Model T Ford and get it back on the open road.

That a mathematician and sportsman would consider it important that engineering students be lectured on poetry says a lot about Trevor West. 

There have been significant developments in the case of missing man Trevor Deely.

A man facing sentencing for fracturing another man’s skull with a samurai sword has started a hunger strike in prison.

The trial of a man accused of murdering Daniel McAnaspie has heard the Dublin teenager begged for his life as he was being stabbed to death.

Ailín Quinlan talks to two parents who are battling to raise funds to treat the multiple rare illnesses afflicting their little boy Fionn Barry

The man behind Ireland’s only missing persons helpline is concerned that lack of government funding could see the charity close its doors within 12 months.

THE death of William Trevor, one of the very greatest modern writers in English, leaves our world a poorer place.

Tributes have been paid to the late novelist William Trevor, who has passed away at the age of 88.

Trevor O’Neill was murdered, shot when he was doing something that an ordinary father would do, writes Alison O’Connor

Legend.

We want to be this Chicago centenarian when we grow up.

Update 4.30pm: Dublin City Council have issued a statement in honour of their recently deceased colleague Trevor O'Neill.

Trevor Martin has lived with a spinal cord injury for two years but he counts himself one of the lucky ones — he can still walk.