He’s climbed Everest twice and walked to the South Pole, but adventurer Pat Falvey said the last week has been one of the toughest of his life after his father suffered a serious health scare in Spain.

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A mother of six, aged in her 80s, has died following a house fire at Macroom, Co Cork.

Police in one of the world’s poorest countries are investigating the murder of a 32-year-old Irishman whose company 4x4 was hijacked by his killers a short distance from his work compound.