Joe Leogue takes a look-back at the week since Karen’s disappearance

The university where Karen Buckley began her nursing studies is today honouring the memory of a popular graduate whose “main aim in life was to help people”.

“There is an outpouring of love and helplessness,” said Mourneabbey-born Fr Seán Corkery as he tried to sum up the feelings of a small tight-knit community experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions as news filtered back from Glasgow that police had officially identified Karen Buckley’s body.

Hundreds of people gathered at a church in Mourneabbey last night for a Mass of Hope for missing student Karen Buckley as word filtered through that police in Scotland had detained a man for questioning in relation to her disappearance.

The availability of land and the “sensible transfer” of farms from one generation to another is one of the major challenges facing the country’s young farmers, Macra na Feirme’s Young Farmer of the Year said yesterday.

We’ve spoken before in these pages about the earthiness of those who go to Clonmel every year for the annual National Coursing Meeting, of how grounded they are in nature, how self-sufficient.

A couple who lost their life savings when bank shares collapsed has won them all back again in a successful appeal to the Financial Services Ombudsman, the High Court has heard.

A FAMILY whose two sheepdogs had to be put down after being poisoned with weedkiller say the culprit has been killing pets in the area for the last 16 years.