LUNCHTIME BULLETIN: Limerick schoolgirl ‘devastated’ after scoliosis operation is cancelled
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Surgery, scheduled for next week, has been cancelled for a schoolgirl whose crippling scoliosis condition forced Minister for Health Simon Harris to admit he was ashamed.
The President of the Court of Appeal has said he believes the State has an obligation to see that Alan Shatter’s constitutional rights are vindicated.
Top breakfast radio show presenter KC KC has left Cork’s RedFM, with industry speculation that he is set to join rival 96FM.
The European Parliament has voted to lift French far-right leader Marine Le Pen's immunity from prosecution.
Sweden's left-leaning government is reintroducing a military draft for both men and women because of what the defence minister called a deteriorating security environment in Europe and around the country.
The company behind the popular messaging app Snapchat is expected to start trading today after a better-than-expected stock offering.
Jared Payne has moved a step closer to a surprise Six Nations appearance after returning to Ireland's training squad.
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Elon Musk, the man behind SpaceX and Tesla, has decided to take marketing advice from a fifth grader who sent him a letter.
DJ Jenny Greene and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra are the latest act to announce a Marquee gig for this summer.
Bishopstown Community School student, Anna Mustata, is 16 years old. An aspiring novelist and gifted mathematician, she won silver in the Mathematics Olympiad in Minsk in 2015, won a trip to Brussels after her BCS team won the Lord Mayor’s debate last month, and won a national essay competition hosted by the Law Faculty of UCC. Here, in an extract from her winning essay, Anna explains why, despite the increasing number of terrorist attacks, the EU principle of free movement must remain
