A 54-year-old woman sustained burns and later died after a fire ignited while she smoked an electronic cigarette.

I HAVE always liked George Lee. During his time as RTÉ economics reporter he presented economic issues in a fashion that those of us with very basic formal education and knowledge of economics could understand.

IT gives life. It takes life. We can have too much of it or we can have too little of it. We love it and we hate it.

AS a young boy holidaying on my uncle’s small farm in Rhode, Co Offaly, I often accompanied him as he cleared overgrowth and silt build-up from the drains and streams around his land.

I WAS in Paris on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.