A Galway man has claimed that his son has been given the all-clear from cancer two years after he was told the illness was terminal.

Pilgrims due to travel to Croatia from Dublin yesterday refused to board their flight after it had already returned to the airport twice with technical issues.

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PACKING my suitcase to go on holiday last week, I had an unusual checklist for a 24-year-old: no make-up, no bikini, and no going-out gear, writes Emma Sisk. 

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A man who impersonated a garda to steal €28,000 from a pensioner in Cork and fled to England two days before his trial was jailed for three-and-a-half years yesterday.

THE voice was an eerie guttural, horrible sound, ferociously angry.

An unemployed dance teacher who falsely accused X Factor judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub will learn today if he has won his appeal against a six-month prison sentence.

An unemployed dance teacher who falsely accused 'X Factor' judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub has suffered from post-traumatic stress for more than a decade, a court has heard.

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A MAN accused of impersonating a garda and stealing €28,000 from a pensioner in Cork city is out on bail on condition that he refrains from calling to the homes of the elderly in the city looking for work.

A MAN accused of impersonating a member of the gardaí and stealing €28,000 lifesavings from a pensioner in Cork city was further remanded in custody yesterday.

A MAN has been charged with impersonating a garda and stealing €28,000 from a Cork pensioner who had withdrawn his life savings from the bank and was on his way to Medjugorje.

GARDAÍ are questioning two men and have recovered most of a pensioner’s life savings which were stolen by a man posing as a garda in Cork city on Sunday morning.

GARDAÍ are questioning two men and have recovered most of a pensioner’s life savings which were stolen by a man posing as a garda in Cork city on Sunday morning.

IT was a 21st birthday to remember for Dublin’s Liam Rushe at Tullamore on Saturday night.

IN an atmosphere that swung between pious religious ceremony and pop concert, Medjugorje visionary Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic began her tour of Ireland at the RDS yesterday.

MARGARET SHERIDAN, one of the hundreds who yesterday visited the willow tree stump in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, which many claim projects the image of Our Lady, said it has worked a miracle of sorts for her husband, Dan, who is on dialysis.

IN another measure that will offer families extra value, Irish Ferries has reduced all summer fares to France by up to 30% and cut the cost of all cabin types by up to 50%, save for their four- and five-star suites.

National debates on social issues, such as during the Lisbon Treaty referendum campaign, could trigger moving statues or even apparitions, it was claimed today.

REGARDING your report headlined ‘Pope orders disciplinary measures on priest over sex scandal’ (September 9), I would like to make a number of points.

ALL hell is breaking loose in Medjugorje following the Pope’s crackdown on the world’s largest illicit Catholic shrine.

A SALSA dancing class ended in a daze for one of the dancers who claimed she was injured when her dance instructor caught her on the hop and jerked her suddenly backwards.

THE husband of an Irish pilgrim whose body was found several months after she went missing in Medjugorje has said he was not surprised that the authorities in Bosnia and Ireland were unable to determine the cause of her death.

The family of an Irish woman who mysteriously disappeared during a pilgrimage to Medjugorje will never know how she died, an inquest heard today.

The inquest will be heard today into the death of a woman who mysteriously disappeared while on pilgrimage in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

THE body of a woman found near the Catholic shrine town of Medjugorje in Bosnia has been officially identified as that of missing Irish pilgrim Winnie Brady.

The body of a woman found in The Bosnian village of Medjugorje earlier this week has been formally identified as that of Dublin woman Winnie Brady.

The family of Winnie Brady, who died while on a pilgrimage to Bosnia-Herzegovina last year, were today arranging to have her body returned to Ireland.

The husband of missing Dublin woman Winnie Brady is expected to formally identify her remains in Medjugorje today.

TESTS are expected to confirm this morning that a woman’s body found at Medjugorje is that of missing Irish pilgrim Winnie Brady.

Jewellery and dental records could identify the body of a woman found just miles from where a Dublin mother went missing in Bosnia-Herzegovina, it emerged today.

A body believed to be that of Irish woman Winnie Brady has been found in the Bosnian town of Medjugorje.

HUNTING clubs in the Medjugorje area of Bosnia-Herzegovina have been asked to assist in the search for missing Irish woman Winnie Brady.

Around 200 people have joined today’s search for Irish woman Winifred Brady who is missing in Bosnia.

AN official from the Irish Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia, has been appointed to co-ordinate efforts to find an Irish woman who disappeared more than a week ago while on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje.

The distraught family of a grandmother who went missing almost a week ago while on a pilgrimage in Bosnia-Herzegovina said today they have no idea what could have happened to her.

Irish peacekeepers in Bosnia have reportedly joined the search for a Dublin woman who disappeared while on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje last week.

The family of a Dublin woman who disappeared on a trip to Medjugorje last week is growing increasingly concerned for her well-being.

I AM writing in response to your report (Irish Examiner, August 4) on meningitis survivor Aoife Murray from Co Westmeath who was taken ill with the disease in Medjugorje.

A MOTHER who lost a daughter to meningitis yesterday revealed her shock when she discovered another daughter had fallen seriously ill with the same infection.

THE VHI last night insisted it was doing all in its power to ensure a teenage girl who took ill while on a pilgrimage in Bosnia receives the best treatment.

Officials from VHI tonight insisted they were doing all in their power to ensure a teenage girl who took ill while on a pilgrimage in Bosnia received the best treatment.

THE last time Eurovision hopeful Chris Doran’s mother flew it was on a very different mission.