STARTED only to keep a manufacturing license, and running on formulae sketched out on napkins, the monks of craft beer in the Franciscan Well Brewery must have had divine inspiration.

Butty Sugrue was some man for one man.

An pub landlord who is thought to be the first person jailed after flouting the smoking ban in England was described as “devastated” by his wife today.

ROBERT HOWARD was a loner. He’d been in trouble since his early teens. He was born in 1944, one of eight children reared in this tiny, country cottage at The Swan in Co Laois.