It's a girl! Finally...

The baby boom continues at Dublin Zoo as a second Asian elephant to be born in the last six weeks arrived on Tuesday.

Giraffes, lions, monkeys, elephants - it's a baby boom!

It's a boy and he's VERY cute.

It was a textbook birth but there was no expectant father pacing around — because he wasn’t there.

He's a cutie.

You know that feeling when have an itch but you just can't quite reach it. Yasmin the elephant came up with a clever way to deal with it.

MID-December and Christmas mania is in full swing.

Beelicious Recipes with Honey compiled and illustrated by Dolores Keaveney (DBee Press; €9.99) is an exuberant, colourful book of simple recipes that will inspire creative youngsters to don their chefs’ hats and stun family and friends with mouth-watering honey dishes.

A mother has been left “inconsolable” over the death of her nine-year-old son after a fire at their home early today.

Chart-topping star Jessie J leads the field at this year’s Mobo Awards – and said her five nominations were “amazing”.

THE most popular oral contraceptive in Ireland is not the safest, research suggests.

Yasmin Le Bon has topped a list of the best-dressed British women over the age of 40.

AN 11-year-old boy has come up with an exotic and apt name for Dublin Zoo’s two-month-old Asian elephant.

An 11-year-old boy has come up with an exotic and apt name for Dublin Zoo’s two-month-old Asian elephant.

Richard Collins on the growing herd at the purpose-built elephant enclosure in Dublin Zoo

A ZOO’S not-so-little latest arrival made his first public appearance yesterday.

A PRIEST has hit out at the hiring of a topless barmaid at a pub in his rural Limerick parish.

There were jumbo celebrations in Dublin Zoo today as its first baby elephant was officially named.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today trumpeted a new rainforest home for Dublin Zoo’s elephants before packing his trunk for his 11-week Dáil holidays.

Elephants will today make their first appearance at Dublin Zoo for almost two years when a spectacular rainforest enclosure is opened.

A BRITISH mother of five-month-old triplets described yesterday how her babies slept through the bombings in Lebanon before they were evacuated.

Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon fell in love with his wife Yasmin's face when he spotted her in a modelling agency's book.

THE closing night of the Cork Film Festival has always been a fitting finale to Ireland’s premier fiesta of film, but this year there was an extra buzz in the air.

Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon has received an anonymous letter claiming he is the biological father of a 21-year-old man.

The designer brought in to add sparkle to women’s clothing at Marks & Spencer is to leave the retailer after three and a half years, it emerged today.

X-Men 2 star Halle Berry has gone down a storm with women who have voted her the world’s top beauty.

British consumer watchdogs today called for an inquiry into a government agency’s handling of a complaint about advertising for a new contraceptive pill.

A Big Brother fan has discovered that one of the contestants is the father she has not seen for 11 years, it was reported today.

Les covers for the fact that he and Sandra are no longer an item to save face in front of Janice and Toyah.