Ever heard of a ’social coach’ device? Suzanne Harrington has and she’s here to tell you all about it in time for Valentine’s Day.

Kya deLongchamps offers some obvious and not-so-obvious tips on how to get your most private space ready for February 14.

Kya deLongchamps looks at the ancient roots and courtly early expressions of St Valentine’s Day.

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A jury has been shown a Valentine’s card allegedly sent to the woman charged with murdering the sender by driving him into a harbour, where he drowned. The court also heard that she had denied driving into the water deliberately.

A garda harassed a female sergeant by sending her a Valentine’s card, emails, and a friend request on Facebook despite numerous warnings from his superiors not to have any contact with her.

The Dermot Weld-trained Harzand earned quotes ranging from 16/1 to 25/1 for the Investec Derby in Epsom following his workmanlike victory in the Group 3 P W McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes in Leopardstown yesterday.

Cork City’s St Patrick’s Day parade was colourful in more ways than one, with every race represented as hundreds of non-nationals mingled with locals to join the celebration.

Recently back from a stint in Japan, Shane Foley celebrated his 28th birthday in style when completing a double on Russian Soul and Hat Alnasar for his boss Michael Halford in Dundalk last night.

As hundreds of thousands of people prepare to shower loved ones with trinkets of affection, spare a thought for one man whose chances of finding his Valentine are literally on a wing and a prayer.

Two Spaniards mistakenly declared dead in the Paris attacks have been rejoicing with their families and loved ones.

Some 400 homes were among the hundreds of structures destroyed as fast-moving wildfires raged through communities in northern California, leaving at least one person dead and sending residents fleeing along roads where some buildings and vehicles were still in flames.

A man has been ordered by a judge to bring a bus time-table to court to prove he knows how to find his way there for his next case.

A "gay" bull saved from slaughter after an international campaign aided by the late Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon may have an eye for the heifers after all, his new owner has revealed.

TOM Hardy stars as Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road (15A), the fourth outing for the ‘road warrior’ struggling to survive in the bleak wastelands of a post-apocalyptic Earth.

 

Joe McNamee visits Clonakilty Chocolate for a seven-course chocolate-themed dinner.

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A man bought a secondhand Porsche 911 sports car but returned it more than three years later after finding out it had been previously written off by a UK insurer, the High Court heard.

A grandmother has been spared jail for lying to GSOC after she posted a lewd Valentine’s card containing a G-string and a bullet to a detective in the Garda "cold case" unit.

A tree-trimmer in Pennsylvania is expected to make a full recovery after an on-the-job accident sent a chainsaw blade several inches into his neck and shoulder.

A tree surgeon is recovering after he was rushed to a US hospital with a chainsaw blade embedded in his neck.

Every year on this day Michael Collins’s grave in Glasnevin is inundated with cards and flowers from admirers, writes Nuala Woulfe

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The relics of St Valentine form a shrine to romance in Whitefriar St church in Dublin. The visitors’ book is filled every six weeks with people’s hopes and requests for love, says Barbara Scully

Arklow has been named the most romantic place in Ireland.

A half-Irish child prodigy, who astonished scientists with his abilities in chemistry, biology, mathematics, and computer programming, is now doing the same for the world of entertainment.

Cork-based veteran folk and rock performer Roy

With the final screen instalments of ‘Harry Potter’ and the ‘Twilight’ film series done and dusted, ‘The Mortal Instruments’ film franchise comes at the perfect time for fantasy film fans.

The female giant panda at Edinburgh Zoo may be pregnant, according to keepers.

Are cereal boxes more nutritious than cornflakes?

Like so many European film-makers, Niels Arden Oplev has answered Hollywood’s siren song.

We got this little clip from the Streamabout lads, asking people in Dublin what their plans are for 'the special day'.

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A programmer at a US firm outsourced his job to a Chinese contractor for a fraction of his six-figure salary.

The company proposing to put a high-voltage electricity line through a 40km stretch of West Cork, and objectors to the development, dug in their heels at a planning hearing, yesterday.

Sports personalities in Boston always have a one-way ticket to Palookaville in their back pocket.

The show must go on for an unconventional drama teacher, who inspires her pupils to chase their dreams during the hottest summer on record, in Marc Evans’s feel good rites-of-passage drama.

Although the epileptic may get warnings of an oncoming electrical brainstorm, others don’t get such advance notice, and so, as far as the bystander is concerned, the seizure comes out of nowhere, transforming the person they know into someone they very definitely don’t know.

A GRIEF-STRICKEN young woman suffered further heartache on St Valentine’s Day when she received flowers and a card from her fiance — who had passed away last Friday.