At the start of yesterday’s inquest into the deaths of Martin McCarthy and his daughter Clarissa, coroner Frank O’Connell warned that “the atmosphere could get a little uncomfortable”. He was talking about the stuffy heat in the crowded room, but he was right in more ways than one

The search for a Dutch tourist missing since last Saturday resumes today after the body of his friend was taken from the sea off the West Cork coast yesterday.

A major search operation was launched in Bantry, Co Cork, today for a teenager who made a distressed call to his father last night telling him he was in trouble.