A Loreto nun working as a school principal in war-torn South Sudan is to be the recipient of the tenth international humanitarian award in honour of the Killarney priest, Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty.

The family of a 13-year-old girl who suffered anaphylactic shock and died are seeking information into the cause of her death.

Ardmore Studios, Ireland’s largest and most famous film production facility, has been put on the market with early estimates suggesting the sale could fetch at least €10m for its owners.

Gardaí have renewed their appeal for the mother of a new born baby girl found three months ago in a recycling facility in Bray, Co. Wicklow, to contact them.

As the curtains come down on the Special Olympics World Summer Games, Team Ireland are celebrating a hugely successful spell in Los Angeles.

Esther N McCarthy goes for bugs, beds and baby stuff for this week’s handful of wishes.

A 40-year-old man has died following a motorbike crash in Bray, Co Wicklow.

One in three teens are using websites facilitating video chats with strangers, leaving themselves open to being groomed by paedophiles.

A mother-of-three is set to become the first sales consultant, in Ireland and Britain, to generate sales of over €1m in a single calendar year for international cosmetic firm, Oriflame.

A US healthcare company is to establish a medical device manufacturing facility in Waterford with the creation of at least 200 jobs.

Variations in the valuation of homes for the property tax have widened further following the launch of a price calculator by daft.ie.

HUNDREDS of mourners turned out yesterday to hear tributes to the Irish backpacker who died last week after falling into a coma on his dream holiday.

TALLAGHT: Robert Roberts, one of Ireland’s oldest businesses, has announced deals worth almost €1m with local suppliers.

A protest is to be held in Bray, Co Wicklow today, by members of the Irish Fire and Emergency Services Association.

An elderly brother and sister were killed in an early morning house fire.

Five men have been arrested by Gardaí investigating a break-in at a business park in Bray, Co Wicklow.

NEIGHBOURLESS and with an unedifying view of partially constructed houses, life at Gallow Hill, in Athy, Co Kildare, is not what Maria Adams signed up to.

A sixth person was arrested today in connection with the killing of a French man at an apartment last week.

Another three people were arrested today in connection with the killing of a Frenchman at an apartment.

An inquest into the deaths of two firemen killed battling a disused factory blaze was today adjourned to allow gardaí to continue their investigations.

GARDAÍ yesterday busted another Asian-run cannabis factory as part of an operation into organised crime involving a Dublin gang.

An experienced firefighter killed on duty with his young colleague warned superiors weeks before they died of dangerous practices in the local fire service.

Healthcare technology company Nypro is to create 150 jobs at its re-developed manufacturing facility in Bray, Co Wicklow.

Detectives are investigating whether a body found today on a rugged headland was that of an elderly woman who went missing from a nearby nursing home two years ago.

THE family of Maura Reynolds, the elderly woman missing since vanishing from a nursing home two years ago, have described as “disgusting” the €2,000 fine imposed on the home owners for failing to take proper care of her.

NINE prisoners were charged yesterday with possession of a mobile phone in jail — the first prosecutions under new laws.

A PROBE is under way at the Limerick plant ofcomputer giant Dell to track down non-nationals allegedly working with false permits.

THE family of an elderly woman who went missing from a nursing home over Christmas have called for regulations to make door alarms mandatory on all elderly care facilities.

A LETTER to Santa Claus sent by a three-year-old girl 45 years ago has been found, lodged in the chimney of a house.

A MULTINATIONAL company, which planned to employ 400 people when it opened in Waterford three years ago, has announced it is to cease manufacturing operations at the plant.

England’s Princess Anne is due to arrive in Ireland this evening for a two-day visit.

GREENSTAR, the waste management company owned by toll-road operator NTR, appointed Steve Cowman as its new chief executive yesterday.

A 25-YEAR-OLD Chinese national arrested on Sunday in connection with the death of Chinese student Xiang Yi Wang was last night brought before a special sitting of the District Court in Bray and charged with her murder.

THE father of murdered Chinese student Xiang Yi Wang has spoken of his daughter’s love for the country where she met her death.

The Special Criminal Court in Dublin today fixed a date in November for the trial of five men arrested after gardai intercepted an alleged IRA operation in Bray, Co Wicklow last year.

TWO workplace tragedies yesterday brought to 12 the number of industrial fatalities this year.

MAN’S best friend really does have a dog’s life around this time of year. Some dogs won’t even get to see Christmas, put down because their owners don’t want them messing up the place.

A fruit picker who allegedly started a fire at a Australian hostel that killed 15 travellers, including an Irish girl, had ‘‘expressed antagonism to backpackers in general’’ before the blaze, a prosecutor said today.

Dell Computer Corp raised its fourth-quarter earnings per share guidance to 17 cents from 16 cents previously.

The mother of the 8-year-old boy, Karl Murphy, who was found dead on Greystones Beach last month, was found last night in Bray, Co Wicklow after she disappeared from a care facility at the Newcastle psychiatric hospital.

Up to 400 new jobs are on the way to Waterford later this year, with the opening of a high-tech manufacturing and assembley plant.