With reference to recent reports in the Irish Examiner on the excellent work being carried out by the Cork Penny Dinners charity, it’s interesting to note that this charity was founded at a meeting in the Imperial Hotel on Mar 12, 1888.

A California woman who impersonated her sister in public after stuffing her dismembered body in a freezer was sentenced to life in prison without parole and barred from profiting by selling a tell-all book or movie script.