“I just want to live a normal life”. That’s the simple wish of publican Gerard Cahill from Mallow, Co Cork, who weighs almost 27 stone. He is one of 18 people hoping to become to an Operation Transformation leader.

Knee-high miracle calf Jack is very likely the smallest living calf in the world — so small his owner initially mistook him for a magpie.

A MEMORIAL service takes place today for a towering figure in Irish medicine who died before Christmas.