LAST month, during a walking tour of Béthune in northern France, our guide recalled the work of a Cork woman, Kate McCarthy, who nursed wounded soldiers during both world wars. Her niece, Sr Breda McCarthy of the Loreto Convent in Bray, told me this extraordinary woman’s story.

Dáithí O Sé, pictured here with Texas Rose Kelly Gaetano, will introduce the Rose Of Tralee on RTÉ One on Monday and Tuesday.

Lucie Aubrac, a hero of the French Resistance whose dramatic life story became a hit film, has died aged 94.

Former President Slobodan Milosevic’s son, who has fled to Russia, was sentenced in absentia today to six months in prison for threatening to kill one of his father’s political opponents with a power saw.