At the start of yesterday’s inquest into the deaths of Martin McCarthy and his daughter Clarissa, coroner Frank O’Connell warned that “the atmosphere could get a little uncomfortable”. He was talking about the stuffy heat in the crowded room, but he was right in more ways than one

The mental health watchdog has demanded a review of the HSE’s care of a depressed Cork father who strangled his two young daughters before killing himself.

Little Clarissa McCarthy was laid to rest in a single coffin in the arms of her devoted father who had carried the 3-year-old into the pitch-black waters of West Cork earlier in the week.

Community in mourning as a father and daughter are laid to rest, says Eddie Cassidy in Schull

The funeral is underway for the father and daughter found dead near their West Cork home on Wednesday.

A long letter found in his family home is understood to have outlined the extreme anguish Martin McCarthy was experiencing in the hours before he ended both his own life and that of his daughter.

Martin McCarthy and his daughter Clarissa will be laid to rest today, writes Eddie Cassidy

A father drowned his 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in an apparent murder-suicide as his marriage broke down, detectives believe.

This beautiful part of West Cork can rarely have looked as desolate as it did yesterday — a grey and cold sky draped over the scene of an almost unimaginable tragedy.

The father and daughter recovered from the sea near Ballydehob in the early hours of this morning have been named locally.

Published 200 years ago today, Pride and Prejudice has sold more than 20m copies. Jonathan deBurca Butler examines its popularity

A 15-YEAR-OLD cancer sufferer has thanked people around the world for helping to fulfil her ‘bucket list’ of things she wants to do before she dies.

A CONVENT in southern Italy is being shut down after a quarrel among its last three remaining nuns ended in blows.

Peter Ebdon’s Wembley record bears out his admission he has not given the Masters due respect down the years.

From The Game Cookbook.

Marathon man Peter Ebdon claimed his first Embassy World Championship crown as he overcame Stephen Hendry 18-17 in one of the classic finals at the Crucible Theatre.