A fireman yesterday described how he saw a five-year-old girl screaming “help, help, help my mom” as she stood in the street and beside her dying 27-year-old mother who had just sustained multiple stab wounds.

The town of Kildysart had seen its share of traffic-related tragedies before the violent double death of a South African couple.

Team news for the Second Round of the Capital One Cup.

A Co Longford man charged with having an explosive device on the eve of the State visit of Queen Elizabeth to the Republic last month has been granted bail at the Special Criminal Court.