FURTHER training and education authority Solas is engaging with home-based women to encourage them to consider retraining to fill a growing number of vacancies across all sectors.

A woman whose body was found near a stream on Friday last may have died from effects associated with hypothermia, according to garda sources.

New figures from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor show that Irish women rank 8th in Europe for starting businesses.

A woman tried to bite a garda and verbally abused him as a “scumbag” at the height of one of several public order incidents.

The referendum on a woman's place in the home may now be delayed until next year.

Gardaí in Balbriggan, Co Dublin are investigating the death of a woman in her late 20s.

If I live to be 100 I will never forget that first time hearing my baby’s heartbeat while having a scan. It was, and remains, the best sound ever.

The 40-year-old woman found dead in a doorway on a Cork city centre street has been remembered as a “kind, nurturing lady”, who died in the same spot where her aunt passed away seven years ago.

The sentencing of a woman who forwarded a video clip of a child being raped through WhatsApp has been adjourned until March.

They mightn’t pay the new Doctor Who as much as a man but at least she doesn’t have to choose between Miss, Mrs or Ms.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating an alleged sexual assault on a woman in the city centre.

Latest: A man has been charged with the murder of Samantha Walsh in Waterford.

A woman has told a Kilkenny cold case murder trial that the accused told her he killed a widow pensioner but that it was an accident.

Latest: The man detained in connection with the death of Nicola Collins has been released by Gardaí.

Gardai have appealed for witnesses following the death of 19-year-old man in a road traffic collision tonight, writes David Raleigh.

Officials in Italy have been asked to look into a case in which a court acquitted a man of raping a woman because she did not scream.

Gardaí are investigating a single vehicle road traffic collision that occurred this morning.

The jury in the trial of a woman accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend in Limerick has heard from a volunteer who found his body in her back garden.

A woman told a jury yesterday of how she was followed by a young Cork man and sexually attacked in the lift of her apartment building in the city, writes Liam Heylin.

Latest: 2, 7, 12, 14, 23 and 35 - those were the winning lotto numbers on Jan 22 2011.

A 44-year-old man pleaded guilty yesterday to making grossly offensive communications by phone in which details were given of disturbing sexual fantasies, writes Liam Heylin.

An elderly woman has died in a housefire in Dublin.

A woman in her 80's has died in a car crash in Cavan.

A woman is in a critical condition after been burned, stabbed, and beaten, in a vicious attack at her home in Limerick, writes David Raleigh.

The charmer!

Gardaí are seeking the public's assistance in locating a 35-year-old woman missing from Doolin, Co Clare.

A mother of two charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend last Sunday, told gardai she "acted in self defence", a court heard Tuesday.

A woman remains in garda custody this morning after a fatal stabbing in County Tipperary.

A British tourist has been arrested in Dubai and charged with having extra-marital sex after she reported being raped by two men, it has been claimed.

Gardaí are seeking the public's help in finding a missing woman in County Kerry.

A woman holidaying in Las Vegas has won a whopping $10.7m on a slot machine.

An investigation has been launched after a woman's body was found in County Wexford.

The trial of a woman accused of murdering a man by driving a car off a harbour in Wicklow has heard his death was consistent with drowning.

Garda are renewing their appeal for information on the whereabouts of a 74-year-old woman from Athlone.

A Cork woman is reported to have died in Spain.

Gardaí in Tralee are appealing to the public for assistance in tracing 33-year-old Kathryn Broderick from Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick.

A woman who wants to use her daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild has appealed to leading judges to allow her to carry out the dying wishes of her "much-loved and only child".

The family of a Belfast woman murdered by the IRA have announced plans to challenge the decision to exclude the case - from investigations into a top British Spy.

A 58-year-old woman has died after falling 15 metres (50ft) down a well at her home in a non-suspicious incident.

A pitiless attacker struck a 50-year-old woman repeatedly in the head with a 2ft machete as he demanded cash writes Liam Heylin.

A woman has been arrested after going on a luxury shopping spree when AUS$4.6m (€3m) was mistakenly credited to her bank account.

A UK woman has been left blind in one eye after she and her partner intervened to help a man who was being attacked.

Gardaí are seeking the public's help in trying to identify a woman, whose body was discovered on the rocks at Scotsmans Bay in Sandycove, Co. Dublin yesterday morning.

A woman in her 80s has been robbed at her home in Derry.