Jo Kerrigan rounds up the best theatre offerings at home and abroad for the months ahead

A man yesterday told how, after he and a friend were abducted, he was freed and told his friend would be killed if his friend’s mother did not pay €500,000.

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The family of a boy who died following injuries sustained when he was hit by a car in 2008 said goodbye to him at his Mass of the Angels service yesterday.

TALK of putting down roots: Denise and Padraig Cusack got so well burrowed down at Aughadown, West Cork, that despite being two miles inland and uphill of the sea from Kilcoe and Roaring Water Bay, they had to drill down 490 feet for their well supply.