Discover Ireland’s good news: an Olympic hero inspires students, donkey gets blessed in Tipperary, and a Dublin rapper stays ...

More than half of Ireland's birds are in decline. Séan Ronayne hopes recording each bird's song on film might help encourage people to save them and the ecosystems they call home.

But army chaplain Fr Paul Murphy is ‘in the business of forgiving’, he told the teenage boy, 17, who stabbed him seven times ...