A woman who died from sepsis after developing an “extremely rare” infection “had everything to live for” after losing eight stone for an operation, her daughter has said.

A woman who had minor elective surgery at a private hospital in Dublin died less than two weeks later, an inquest has heard.

Ireland’s hopes of retaining the R&A Trophy for the Boys Home International Championship suffered a jolt as they were agonisingly beaten 8-7 by hosts Scotland at Western Gailes in Ayrshire yesterday.

THINGS are looking down in the Irish property market. That’s not a gloomy forecast — it is merely an observation that maybe the time has come to build basements.

IT could be said, in historical terms, the fall of the Irish ascendancy marked the rise of another ruling class the Catholic church.