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Lady in Red singer Chris de Burgh has put his Irish mansion up for sale with an asking price of a whopping €12.5m. The music legend explained that now his kids grown and up and left home, the eight-bedroom house is simply too big for just him and his wife.

Aussie legend Kylie Minogue has endeared herself to her Irish fans by giving them free pints of Guinness as a thank you for coming to her shows. It was her way of making up for having to postpone two big events earlier in the year.

A surprise encounter for gravedigger William Spence was the catalyst for a harrowing story from 19th century Belfast. On Sunday 9th November 1884, Spence’s evening was interrupted by a knock on his door.

The murder of Sister Cathy shocked America. There were allegations that it was linked to child abuse by priests and may have been covered up by the Catholic Church. Now Netflix has produced a documentary to try to find out exactly what happened. Author Bill Hughes looks at the story …

The murder of a young nun is being investigated in a new documentary and the finger of blame is pointed squarely at a priest who later fled to Ireland. Sister Cathy Cesnik is the subject of the Netflix documentary ‘The Keepers’. She went missing in Baltimore in 1969, when she …

Experimental drugs intended for cattle were tried out on children in Irish mother-and-baby homes, according to official reports obtained by the radio station, Newstalk. The report, from the Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health’s report to the Oireachtas in the year 2000, says the tests involved 290 children …

Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical has been a long time coming. Ask Meat Loaf when he first heard about the idea, and he replies: “About 48 years ago. It’s been Jimmy’s dream since I first met him.” Jimmy, of course, is Jim Steinman, Meat’s long-time friend, and writer …

Not sure how to prune properly? Want a beginner’s guide to vegetable growing? Fancy a new career as a garden designer? Whatever your horticultural bent, there is a course out there for you, from one-day taster courses to degrees and recognised horticultural qualifications. But where do you start?

Infectious diseases, including flu and pneumonia, remain a big killer in older age-groups, in spite of modern antibiotics. Even if a disease isn’t normally fatal, like shingles, it can still cause significant pain for as long as a year.

In 20th Century Women, Annette Bening plays Dorothea, a single mum in Seventies Santa Barbara. It’s a time of cultural revolution and rebellion, and Dorothea’s doing her best to embrace the change that’s happening – both in the wider world and at home, as her teenage son grows up.