To celebrate National Hug Your Cat Day, Nuala Woulfe chats to Irish celebrities about their feline friends.

“Karen’s death seems so utterly inappropriate. It violates our sense of order. In our view of life, death and childhood are poles apart, and 24 years simply does not seem the right time to die — it does not seem to add up.”

A woman who killed her two children while suffering post-natal depression told a court today she was “a good mum”.