A memorial service is to be on Monday for a father-of-one who died just hours after summiting the world’s highest mountain.

The search for Mr Lawless, from Bray, Co Wicklow has now turned into a recovery operation in an area known as the death zone where oxygen levels are very low.

Indian climber Ravi Thakar was found dead inside his tent on Mount Everest at 7,900m Camp Four in Nepal last Friday morning. Severe altitude sickness is being blamed for his death.

At just 16 years of age, Ellen Kinch lost a two-and-a-half-year battle with cancer.

Offaly Rose Jennifer Byrne has been named the winner of the 59th International Rose of Tralee.

Gwen Loughman looks at the social and psychological impact volunteering has on everyone involved

Golf star Rory McIlroy has secured close to €1 million for three children’s charities on the back of the Irish Open tournament.

Helen O’Callaghan reports on a volunteer programme that aims to ease the boredom and uncertainty experienced by children in hospital.

A travel agent who set up a charity which sent terminally ill children to Lapland has been given a suspended sentence for stealing over €18,000 from the organisation.

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Its motto is “choose to live a little” and after one of its staff had a scare last year, Lidl is making sure its staff can live longer by checking out their hearts and setting them a fitness challenge.

The lights are up, the cameras are ready, and the action is waiting to burst onto the streets.

It’s just as well Mick O’Rourke is in the business of renewable energy as his daughter Caoimhe May, 12, is as close to perpetual motion as you can get.

Whatever about Ireland’s decline to becoming an outlier of European football, comments by Roy Keane would have us believe it wasn’t avoidable.

Roy Keane insists Irish fans should appreciate Martin O’Neill as a “bloody good manager”.

Discount retailer Lidl has created 40 new permanent jobs at two new Dublin stores this month.

Some of the biggest names in Irish music are playing the Olympia tonight in aid of Barretstown.

One hundred of the controversial e-voting machines are to be sold off for charity.

WITH clear, nut-brown eyes and peachy pink cheeks, seven-year-old Orna Curley looks the picture of health. But three years ago she was seriously ill.

DISAPPOINTING summer weather wasn’t going to put paid to Shanagarry ICA’s plans to hold a Big Picnic for Barretstown.

The 2011 Cannonball Run around Ireland has been officially started in Dublin this morning by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

PAUL NEWMAN’S charitable legacy has yet again benefited Ireland with a €25,000 cheque to fund much-needed medical detox beds for drug addicts.

PAUL NEWMAN only ever wanted to be remembered as someone who cared for others, Robert Forrester, president of Newman’s Own Foundation, claimed yesterday.

GETTING complimented for her hairstyle is still a surprise for teenager Orla Jackman, who was diagnosed with leukaemia just over a year ago.

AN update on the design of the new national children’s hospital at the controversial Mater Hospital site in Dublin will be given today by those charged with its development.

THE head of the controversial National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, Philip Lynch, has resigned his position.

PROMINENT medical practitioners who specialise in paediatrics have come out against the building of the new national children’s hospital in the middle of Dublin, saying it is not in the best interests of children.

THREE friends have set off on a road trip to Mongolia to raise money for seriously ill children.

GLANBIA, the global food group, and its Irish consumer foods business, under the Avonmore brand, announced yesterday it is committed to raising €2 million between now and 2011 for Barretstown, the therapeutic recreation camp for children with cancer and other serious illnesses.

A woman was killed today after the car she was driving was in collision with a truck.

HOLLYWOOD film star and philanthropist Paul Newman last night accepted a donation of $1 million (€738,000) to be spent on Irish children with cancer.

DANUTA GRAY, chief executive of O2 Ireland, has been appointed as chairperson to the board of children’s charity Barretstown.

FAMOUS Dubliners went sightseeing yesterday to help raise funds for a charity devoted to helping sick children.

IRELAND’S four leading children’s hospitals joined forces yesterday to launch a nationwide appeal for a slice of the country’s SSIA windfall.

DECLAN MOLLOY and Catriona Clancy once shared a hospital room together as cancer patients.

A 'Serious Fun Day' of fundraising is being launched by children's charity Barretstown in Dublin today.

THERE aren’t many 13-year-old boys whose main ambition in life “is to give something back.”

More than 1,500 children and families will visit Barretstown this year, it was announced today, as experts revealed 250,000 new cases of childhood cancer are diagnosed every year.

Veteran Hollywood actor Paul Newman today appealed for more donations for his Barretstown Gang Camp so “more kids can experience its magic“.

HOLLYWOOD icon Paul Newman is the guest of honour at a gala ball today to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Barretstown Gang Camp, the therapeutic recreation centre near Ballymore Eustace in Co Kildare.

Hollywood legend and ex-motor racer Paul Newman was back behind the wheel today as he took a “New Generation” Porsche 911 for a spin around a race track.

US pharmaceutical firm Wyeth has announced plans to donate $500,000 (€421,000) to a project for sick children in Co Kildare.

MOVIE fans can help seriously ill children simply by renting their favourite films.

IT was a case of action stations for 13 Chernobyl children when they were treated to a display of military hardware at the Curragh yesterday.