ON a visit to the royally-endorsed English Market, in Cork, globetrotting TV chef Rick Stein was pulled, as if by magnetic force, to the seafood corner, as are many.

Tracy Ryan uses edible ingredients in her Bia Beauty natural skin-care products, because the skin absorbs 60% of what is put on it. Her business began in her spare room and now sells to 100 stores nationwide.

Ever since they first turned out for a rumble on the left bank of the Taff, Ireland have usually made a point of picking something up in Cardiff. 

RBS U20 6 Nations

A man left scarred after his wife poured scalding water over him has said: “Being attacked by a woman is nothing to be ashamed of.”

“The biggest game in Ireland’s cricket history,” is what Niall O’Brien calls tomorrow night’s shoot-out with Pakistan for a quarter-final berth. 

When John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote “With a Little Help from My Friends” they never have imagined it would become one of the biggest sellers of all time. 

Hannah Tyrell won’t be lacking in confidence in her third outing for Ireland tomorrow afternoon against Wales.

Paul O’Connell and I are in different places now. He’ll get to where I’m at soon, where most things are in a rearview mirror and frustrations are examined from a wide-angled perspective. 

He was true to his word. He didn’t stop. The job may have finished up but the work didn’t. 

The family of an Irish sporting legend said they are deeply moved after a walkway near his childhood home was named in his honour.

THERE is something about Roy. It’s nearly a decade since Roy Keane last kicked a ball in professional football. Still, he holds our attention.

The latest on the Airbus A320 crash in France, a cocaine seizure in Cork, and a look at what it’s like to be a man in 2015 are all part of our lunchtime briefing on the latest and most read content on irishexaminer.com today.   

After last weekend, the World Cup just can’t come soon enough. 

Munster head coach Anthony Foley is banking on Paul O’Connell seeing out his contract until the end of next season.

England have missed targets and finished an unacceptable second in the RBS 6 Nations once more, but Rugby Football Union chief executive Ian Ritchie has confidence in head coach Stuart Lancaster ahead of the Rugby World Cup.

Barry Geraghty’s hopes of making the Punchestown Festival rest on a meeting with his surgeon in four weeks’ time.

Willie Mullins intends to enter his Champion Hurdle big guns at the Aintree Grand National meeting.

What is RTÉ at? Love him or hate him George Hook is one of the most original pundits on RTÉ. He has a contract to continue up to the end of the Rugby World Cup for which they must pay him, but RTÉ has decided he must go now.

Touring with Hozier gave James Bay a glimpse of ‘the next big thing’ status that awaited him, writes