The baby girl found dead at a Wicklow recycling centre last May was born “weeks, if not months” before she was discovered, it has emerged.

Gardaí have renewed their appeal for the mother of a new born baby girl found three months ago in a recycling facility in Bray, Co. Wicklow, to contact them.

There was a dignified ceremony last week attended by 120 people for the funeral of the baby girl found dead in early May in a recycling centre in Co Wicklow.

Clergy and gardaí have renewed appeals to the parents of a baby girl, whose body was found at a recycling plant last week and laid to rest yesterday, to come forward.

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Met Éireann has given us the green light for dry weather over the coming bank holiday weekend, a pensioner had to be rescued from a freezing canal in Limerick today after he fell in taking part in a massive clean up and Margaret Hickey tells us why she is voting no in the upcoming marriage equality referendum. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this lunchtime.

Alannah from Kilkenny received some very sad news early this week. Her favourite field was being ploughed by the farmer in preparation for planting.

Gardaí are appealing for information about a teenager missing from Dublin since last week.

TO SAY that Westport House has been in the family for generations doesn’t quite capture Lady Sheelyn Browne’s impressive lineage — her connection to the 400-acre Co Mayo estate goes right back to her 14th great-grandmother, the “most notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland”, pirate queen Grace O’Malley.

Mourners were told yesterday that even in death, 8-year-old Ultan Hayes has kept on giving — by donating organs to four others, three of them children.

The principal at the school where 8-year-old Ultan Hayes attended has said pupils and staff are “utterly devastated” by the young boy’s death.

“I honestly don’t think I would have survived this long without it because communication is the essence of life and it would literally break my heart if I was unable to speak to my family and friends.’’

LOOKING back, all I can feel is the most enormous sense of relief that nobody ran out on the road and got lost or even killed.

The annual Dublin Horse Show started in unconventional style yesterday with a bang and a bicycle.

A man has been arrested in connection with the death of Real IRA boss Alan Ryan last September.

The days of pregnant women hiding their bellies in unflattering smocks are over, writes Sue Leonard.

A volley of shots were fired over the coffin of murdered Real IRA boss Alan Ryan as he was given a full republican military funeral today.

Gardaí have arrested a man in connection with the murder of terror boss Alan Ryan last Monday.

A man is being questioned in connection with the murder of Real IRA boss Alan Ryan who will be buried tomorrow.

THERE’S a generation of Irish parents who are coming face to face with the pain of emigration.

ASK Michael Lowry if he resents being regarded by some in the “commentariat” as a parish-pump politician, a guy to whom you’d go to fix a pot-hole rather than fix the economy, and he bristles.

AS if the weather wasn’t cold enough, two Co Kerry brothers last night forsook the comfort of their beds to sleep in an igloo.

THE AA was receiving a call-out to stricken drivers every 30 seconds at one point yesterday as commuters fought through sub-zero temperatures to get to school or work.

A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy struck by a car as he ran to greet his grandfather has died.

I’m a Celebrity and former soccer star John Fashanu has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to a former maid who claims he treated her like a slave.

I’m a Celebrity star John Fashanu has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to a former maid who claims he treated her like a slave.