Two funerals took place in Ireland yesterday, each getting public attention but for very different reasons.

Your lunchtime news bulletin.

That estimable survivor of the showband era, Big Tom McBride from Co Monaghan, once had a hit about an old-fashioned Irish mother “in the fields where the wildflowers grow’’.

FARMERS, company directors and publicans are the biggest tax dodgers in the country, according to the latest list of defaulters published by the Revenue Commissioners.