A young Cork man on a student working visa in the US has died following a swimming accident last week.

Prayers have been offered in Ballyhooley, Co Cork, for a J1 student from the area who suffered a cardiac arrest on a beach in Ocean City, Maryland.

An Irish J1 student is reportedly in a serious condition in hospital in the US after getting into difficulty while swimming.

Why Americans feel that a beach is the correct place to be as a storm strikes land will forever be beyond us Europeans.

A high school student who was told he had less than a five percent chance of walking again after a diving accident stunned the audience at his graduation when he rose from his wheelchair and walked across the stage to collect his diploma.