The second wife of the Co Limerick man Jason Corbett — was one of only two people questioned so far about his violent death — has taken to Facebook to try and win back her stepchildren.

St Patrick’s Day parades bring out the best in our towns and cities,Richard Fitzpatrick reports.

One of the few Irish St Patrick’s Day celebrations that matches the splendour of those in America, a mix of paint, performances, pageantry, parades and parties, promises to make this year’s Dublin festival one of the most spectacular ever.

Looking to take the little monsters away for Halloween? Pól Ó Conghaile has some frighteningly good fun for those travelling with or without the family.

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A Christ Church Cathedral spokeswoman has described as "completely bizarre" the theft of a preserved 12th Century heart from the Cathedral in Dublin.

The 12th century preserved heart of St Laurence O'Toole has been stolen from Christ Church Cathedral.

LEGENDARY hellraisers The Dubliners fell unusually silent yesterday when they were upstaged by the Lord’s Prayer.

Police in Bristol are warning women not to walk home alone after dark because landscape architect Joanna Yeates’s killer remains at large.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed more than 50 graves at an excavation at Christ Church in Cork city.

THE founder of Britain’s most famous family dynasty of executioners once offered his macabre services in a case in Cork, in 1903.

Hundreds of thousands of revellers rang in 2009 from a freezing Times Square as the famous Waterford crystal ball dropped, signalling the end of a historic and troubled year that saw the election of the first black US president and the worst economic crisis in decades.

The mother of two girls murdered by their father wept today at a funeral service held for her two “angels”.

A mother in England will today bury her two young daughters who were smothered to death by their father who also killed himself.

HARMONICA legend Don Baker helped launch a unique album yesterday featuring the talents of homeless people.

Thousands of people today transformed Dublin City Centre into a massive carnival for the end of the annual Gay Pride Festival.

Up to 10,000 people will take part in the Gay Pride parade through Dublin city today.

Lee Westwood has high hopes of going into The Masters with another win under his belt after starting his defence of the Andalucian Open with a seven-under-par 65 at Aloha today.

Dublin’s ancient Christ Church Cathedral is to be transformed with a modern music-and-light display to celebrate Christmas.

A Dublin man denied at the Special Criminal Court today that he was part of an IRA operation that gardaí foiled in September 2003.

A NEW, state-of-the-art building to store and preserve one of the richest sets of local archives in the country was opened in Cork yesterday.

DUBLIN is one of the least popular places - and among the most favoured - in Ireland for tourists to visit according to a survey of more than 1,100 visitors from the US, Canada, Britain and Europe.

The first openly gay Anglican bishop says he is being falsely accused of suggesting Jesus might have been homosexual.

A man has been shot in Dublin city centre.