A seven-year-old who died of leukaemia on New Year's Eve just months after he received 10,000 birthday cards from well-wishers from all over the world has been described at his requiem mass as a "miracle child" and a "gorgeous, happy chatty little man."

Amid fears of an escalation of a Traveller feud in Kerry, the county’s most senior garda officer has warned that violent behaviour will not be tolerated.