The Irishman rounds off the panel, which include Strictly’s Craig Revel Horwood and Sharna Burgess.

The Atlantic storms name list is out. This year could be a turning point. A sea-change, if you will.

Áilín Quinlan talks to parents who are determined to give their son as full a life as possible.

A three-year-old boy with a catastrophic form of epilepsy, who was the first person in Ireland to be legally allowed used cannabis for medicinal purposes, has been asked to leave his preschool because of concerns by staff in relation to the treatment of his condition.

A toddler with a catastrophic form of epilepsy has become the first person in Ireland to be legally allowed use marijuana for medicinal purposes.

This is what Christmas is all about.

Nine-year-old Tristan Jacobson was abandoned as a child and the family that took him in now want to make it official.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Nine-year-old Tristan Jacobson from Missouri was left on the door of a homeless shelter during winter four years ago. Donnie Davis had known Tristan for most of his life so she didn’t hesitate to take him in and he has been part of her family ever since.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

A little boy whose body has been racked with seizures up to 20 times a day since he was five months old has been seizure free for three months following his mother’s move to the US for cannabis oil treatment.

In 2015 Yvonne Cahalane and her son two-year-old son, Tristan, relocated to Colorado to begin treatment for his epilepsy which uses cannabis oil. Briona Gallagher caught up with Yvonne, who still cannot believe the treatment isn't legal in Ireland.

Cesca became addicted to writing whilst at university.

An Irish mother has launched an appeal to help her fund specialist medical marijuana treatment in the US for her baby who has a potentially life-threatening condition.

As school league tables show top performing schools place a big emphasis on career guidance. Ellie O’Byrne has been looking at how parents can help children find their passion

Check out our spoiler-free guide to what to watch on TV tonight.

Mrs Brown’s Boys actress Jennifer Gibney was never favourite to lift the glitterball trophy, but she was a huge hit when it came to her fellow Strictly Come Dancing contestants.

George the goldfish had surgery in Australia to remove a brain tumour. It went swimmingly (sorry).

Green:The History of a Color

Schiphol Airport is the wrong place to be for family and friends of those who died on Malaysian flight MH17.

Wide Open Opera’s ‘Nixon in China’ commemorates the late American president’s meeting with Mao Zedong in 1972, writes Alan O’Riordan.

Ed Sheeran is planning a collaboration with The Vamps.

Your guide on what to look out for on the box this evening.

A five-year-old girl from Co Cork who battled cancer for two years before passing away last week has been laid to rest.

A stunning image of the moment a brightly coloured bird finding food in snow has won a national wildlife photography award.

In an upcoming TV documentary Darren Kennedy, who is gay, talks about the obstacles preventing him becoming a father, Arlene Harris reports.

Pamela Anderson is struggling to stay celibate.

FILM legend Danny DeVito is set to direct a €20 million movie here next year starring Morgan Freeman and Pierce Brosnan.

VICKIE and Tristan lived in a chic little mews house in Central London, but when they inherited a beautiful thatched cottage with an Aga beside a fishing cove they decided to move, lock, stock and buggy to Cornwall with toddler Tonsley and baby Briar.

VICKIE and Tristan lived in a chic little mews house in Central London, but when they inherited a beautiful thatched cottage with an Aga beside a fishing cove they decided to move, lock, stock and buggy to Cornwall with toddler Tonsley and baby Briar.

The parents of four-year-old cancer sufferer Megan Malone say she has been given the all-clear from doctors in Boston.

The Absolutist

TWO-YEAR-OLD Liam Heffernan, who underwent pioneering brain surgery to help him overcome the fatal Batten disease, arrived back in Ireland yesterday — a week earlier than expected.

THE parents of a Cork toddler, undergoing specialist treatment in New York for a brain tumour, say their wish for 2011 is their brave daughter will start playschool in September, free from disease.

AN anonymous donor has offered to foot the likely €300,000 bill for a little Cork girl to have lifesaving treatment in the US.

A DONOR has come forward and offered to pay for the specialist US treatment needed to save the life of three-and-a-half year-old Cork girl Megan Malone.

A THREE-YEAR-OLD girl from Co Cork who was diagnosed with a rare tumour in October — just a week after her parents celebrated the birth of a new child — travelled to New York yesterday for vital cancer treatment.

IT should have been a time for celebration with the birth of a baby boy, instead John and Sheila Malone are struggling to come to terms with a dire diagnosis.

THE Adoption Board has been at the centre of a number of scandals concerning how domestic and foreign adoptions have been carried out since adoption was made legal in 1952.