Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

The US singer tells Don O’Mahony how her grandfather’s passing has evoked memories of blissful childhood days visiting West Cork, and how it’s all echoed in her new album

As Culture Night kicks off in 900 venues around the country, Alan O’Riordan selects some of the best free offerings in Dublin, Cork and other parts of Munster

AN 82-YEAR-OLD woman with dementia was impaled on an iron railing after she fell from a second floor window at a care home for the elderly.