A voluntary organisation comprised of seven different religious denominations took to the streets of Cork last night for the Leaving Certificate celebrations in order to assist young people who were in difficulty after the festivities.

A voyeur who installed a hidden camera in a Starbucks toilet apparently captured himself on film in the process.

Police have issued a warning about ecstasy pills after a woman died and two men taken to hospital after taking the drugs.

9am, and I am standing outside Vanessa’s flat in Brixton, checking my phone for messages left on the “Siblings” Whatsapp group that my London sister created in order to organise my mother’s 80th birthday party.

What a ridiculous idea. People watching telly watching people watching telly. How could that ever catch on? 

A keen marathon runner whose leg was amputated after she was run over by a Tesco lorry while cycling in London said the £625 fine given to the driver proves cyclists are treated as "second class citizens on the roads".

More than 50 people have been evacuated from a London high-rise block of flats after a blaze engulfed the lower floors.

The only way to find out what’s happening in the world of interiors its to go to the shows, and Rose Martin visited London last week for the niche, Clerkenwell Design Week.

Saturday, 7pm, London.

Right at the height of his global fame, Billy Ocean walked away from the music business, preferring to spend time with his family. He tells Ed Power why he did it

Bernardine Coverley, daughter of Irish parents who ran a pub in Brixton, met the painter, Lucian Freud when she was 16 and he was 20 years her senior.

WELL it’s certainly been a hat trick for cancer — stealing talented, creative men aged 69-70. Lemmy, David Bowie and now Alan Rickman. 

The father of a young British woman killed after hitting a bridge while bungee jumping in Spain has described her as “sweet, caring, bubbly and focused”.

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Channel 4 News breached broadcasting rules over its coverage of the Ellison review into possible police corruption around the Stephen Lawrence case, according to communications watchdog Ofcom.

A 16-year-old accused of stabbing another boy to death in a row over the sale of a £90 bicycle in England has pleaded guilty to murder on the second day of his Old Bailey trial.

Peerless punk poet John Cooper Clarke will be in Dublin and Cork over the next week. The first time he gigged in Ireland was back in "1979ish" at the Project Arts Centre. He was then at the height of his fame.

Paul McCartney is being celebrated fellow songwriters with a special one-off prize at the NME Awards recognising his contribution to music over the past half century.

I support Rory O’Neill’s contention, on the show, Sunday with Miriam, that it is no longer reasonable to debate the question of whether the Irish State should treat gay people differently.

Arctic Monkeys lead the nominations for this year's NME Awards.

Arctic Monkeys lead the field for this year’s NME Awards with eight nominations.

Whether in or out of prison, Nelson Mandela was a crowd-puller.

The Irish daughter of a Second World War codebreaker is one of three women allegedly held as a slave by a Maoist sect, it has been claimed.

Two of the three women allegedly held as slaves for at least 30 years had lived in a “collective” with the man arrested after meeting through a “shared political ideology”, police have disclosed.

Sinkhole costs Ohio £60,000

A serving police officer in the UK who posted offensive messages online following Baroness Thatcher’s death has resigned.

Hundreds of cheering people held parties to “celebrate” the death of Baroness Thatcher.

David Bowie fan Suzanne Harrington was blown away by a sneak preview of the incredible new exhibition dedicated to him at the V&A Museum in London

Six-page letter from Annie MacSwiney, written from Brixton Prison on Aug 28, 1920 in regard to her brother, Terence MacSwiney.

A family had to exhume the remains of a lovedone after a blunder by Wexford Borough Council on a graveyard map more than 20 years ago.

A year ago England was engulfed by riots but the UK government has done nothing to tackle the issues that sparked them, writes Siôn Simon

BRIXTON HILL, London. And there’s a man with an enormous bunch of dreadlocks fidgeting on the side of the road ahead.

Gordon Ramsay is to make a new TV show inside a women's prison.

Gordon Ramsay has signed a £1m (€1.2m) contract with Channel 4.

He took a 17-year break from music, now Billy Ocean is enjoying being back on the road. He talks fame, family and Boyzone with Ed Power

A former visual effects supervisor for Doctor Who has had fat taken from his stomach and inserted into his temple after falling 8m from a drainpipe in 2009.

Noel Gallagher is confirmed to play at the NME Awards 2012.

Bickering brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher could have even more to argue about following this year’s NME Awards after being nominated for Hero and Villain of the Year respectively.

MARTIN JOL is a manager who would have a very global view on football.

JAILING those involved in the riots for longer than they deserve risks undermining confidence in the justice system, lawyers and campaigners have said.