An Irish cervical cancer campaigner who lost her life because of medical negligence is due to be remembered at a special lecture in the Netherlands next month.

The initial horror provoked by Friday’s massacre in Christchurch may have subsided slightly but the anger endures. That anger is exacerbated by the rise, the return really,

A fast food chain has announced plans to open 20 restaurants in Ireland over the next four years and create 600 jobs.

Why write about hate? St Patrick’s Day is a time of celebration for all of us. My grandchildren are proud to march, even in the coldest of weather, and it means a lot to them and their local community, writes Fergus Finlay.

As any parent who ever watched a teenage son or daughter tip their toe into the grown-up world, some degree of apprehension is unavoidable.

So that’s Monday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Tributes have been paid to Aoife O’Connell, a 21-year-old Cork student who has been killed in a road traffic collision in the Netherlands.

Peter Cluskey recounts how his wife, Adrienne, died on New Year's Eve after a Dutch hospital "lost" tests results in 2011 that showed she had cancer.

Irish coach Alexander Cox is set to make his first significant squad announcement next Tuesday as the men’s hockey World Cup in India comes into view.

Tara Flynn didn’t set out to become a face of the Repeal the Eighth campaign. She was just a woman, she says, who had a crisis pregnancy — and wrote a play about it.

Tommy Barker says this is a one-off Macroom home and homestead that’ll be hard to bypass. Be smart, check out the smart home.

The club is responsible for "a culture of lawlessness" among its members, according to the prosecutors.

Older women need to stay trim to reduce the risk of breast cancer, it has emerged.

Eating carrots can cut the risk of hard-to-treat types of breast cancer by up to 60%, research has shown.

Haruhiko Kurodaand and Mario Draghi may be among the few economists who still think negative interest rates are a good idea.

Cutting-edge technology in Trinity College Dublin has helped to shed light on a ‘gladiator’ burial mystery that has baffled archaeologists for more than a decade.

It was brought to Europe in mid-19th century and was much-admired for its ornamental foliage, after being uprooted from its natural habitat on the slopes of Japanese volcanoes, but it has become our most challenging invasive plant.

Tour de France

Tomorrow, Sunday July 5, stage two, Utrecht to Zeeland.

Athlone is mourning a couple killed by terrorist in Tunisia, a swab ’the size of a mini football’ was left inside a woman at a Dublin hospital, a weekend of sporting finals awaits and Conor McGregor plays to the crowd on American TV. Here’s this evening’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

Nicolas Roche has been named in Team Sky’s nine-man squad for the Tour de France, which starts in Utrecht in the Netherlands on Saturday.

Ireland’s Nicolas Roche admits he is “worried” he may miss out on this year’s Tour de France amid fears Team Sky will omit him from their line-up for the race.

As part of her MA in Journalism Briona Gallagher discovers the delights of the City of Utrecht in Amsterdam while attending a documentary film festival hosted by University of Utrecht.   

Ikea has stopped plans by thousands of people to play hide and seek in its maze-like stores in the Netherlands.

A friend invited me round for afternoon tea. Actually, that’s not precisely accurate – she really invited me round to admire the new tree she’d planted and we didn’t drink tea, we drank wine. But afternoon tea sounds better, doesn’t it?

The strain of bird flu found on a duck breeding farm in the UK is the same as one recently identified in the Netherlands and Germany, the UK's Environment Department has said.

Culling of thousands of ducks at a farm operated by the UK’s largest producer of duck products is expected to begin today after a bird flu outbreak.

CYCLING: Chris Froome may opt out of the 2015 Tour de France and target a Giro d’Italia-Vuelta a Espana double instead.

Philomena Lee, whose life story inspired the Oscar-nominated film, Philomena, will be one of the main speakers at a two-day adoption conference in UCC on September 4 and 5.

Philomena Lee will be among the speakers at a two-day international conference in UCC next month.

Vincenzo Nibali completed victory in the 101st Tour de France in Paris yesterday as Marcel Kittel won the final stage on the Champs-Elysees-

It is no longer only grief and mourning sweeping across the Netherlands in the aftermath of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. It is now anger.

I’M just back from a holiday in France. I stayed for a few days in Dinan, a beautiful medieval town in Brittany.

The tricolour fluttered proudly in Utrecht as Ireland picked up two gold medals on the concluding day of action at the European Youth Olympic Festival.

An impressive double by 18-year-old Clonmel athlete Sean Tobin was the highlight of the 13th annual Leevale T&F meeting which took place at the Cork IT track in dry but windy conditions on Saturday.

The most expensive football transfer in Irish history was agreed on Friday. Understandably, you may have missed it.

Swansea goalkeeper Michael Vorm has signed a new four-year deal to remain with the club until 2016.

A Dutch train station has installed a children's slide for passengers.

COME to Amsterdam, they say.

IRELAND’S U18 girls produced a superb backs-to-the-wall effort to keep Belgium at bay and secure a top four ranking at the Volvo EuroHockey U18 Championships in Utrecht yesterday.

KATIE FROELING has an early chance to make herself an adopted Irish hero as she lines out in green against her native Holland at the Volvo EuroHockey U18 Championships in Utrecht today (3.05pm Irish time).

JEAN MCDONNELL has been handed the chance to prove her Irish international credentials after she was named in an 18-strong squad for next week’s FIH Champions Challenge I in Dublin.

Liverpool’s owners realise regaining the club’s Champions League status will be a difficult task, according to manager Roy Hodgson.