Michael started life as a journalist. He worked for Hot Press, writing news-based stories, and eventually moved to Magill. He was at the stage of securing a staff job, but he’d always wanted to study law.

Dublin football star Jonny Cooper said he is "humbled" by good wishes he has received after he was the victim of an horrific stabbing in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Michael became interested in photography when a friend taught him how to develop black and white pictures. He brought his first camera at 14, having saved up for it for a year. It cost £3.26.

Pre-championship favourites Ballymun Kickhams got their Dublin SFC campaign off to a winning start as they recorded a comfortable victory over Naomh Olaf at Parnell Park last night.

“Ireland needs to grieve before we can move on.” That's the view of Lydia Kiernan, founder of National Grieving Day, which is taking place in Ireland and around the world next Tuesday, December 3.

Pat Gilroy believes there’s more to come from Eoghan O’Gara after his scintillating scoring return in a wet Portlaoise on Saturday night.

IT goes without saying that a three-time All-Ireland winner is going to look a little differently at a footballer who has won none.

EOGHAN O’GARA’S season hangs in the balance after he sustained a suspected fractured wrist in Sunday’s Leinster SFC defeat of Wexford.

FIRST-TIME novelist Paul Soye started out in social work. First he was a volunteer, then he had paid jobs, and, after a stint in France, he got a qualification. But he’s no stranger to writing. The 59-year-old is the prize-winning playwright of Cherished, and The Birdcage. But a novel seemed a step too far.

A 16-year-old schoolboy, who was in a stolen car that rammed gardaí and nearly mowed down pedestrians when it raced around Dublin city centre’s south-side, has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

An Irish fighter pilot who shot down 32 planes in the Second World War was officially honoured today for the first time in his own country.

GARDAÍ believe they have caught a serial rapist suspected of assaulting at least four women over recent months.

THE only mathematical equation that Ronan Larkin had not considered was how much winning the 2004 Esat BT Young Scientist of the Year would mean to his bank balance.