A massive community effort to tackle the aftermath of the flood helped restore relative order to Clonakilty within hours.

Cork colours did well at last Sunday’s Clonakilty Show — with a red and white Holstein winning a top championship.

A KILLING, a garda siege, the besieged killer taking his own life — the sequence of events whose final tragic outcome was the pointless waste of two lives is a not unfamiliar drama.

THE killing of a child always sends a shiver down the spine but the death of a child at the hands of a parent is seen by many as the worst kind of killing.

ELLEN COSS BROWN’S face stares out of the now slightly tattered posters placed by her family in shop windows across south Dublin.

CHRISTINE O’SULLIVAN’S only solace in life is that she will see her daughter, Deirdre, again. This time round, nobody will ever be able to separate them again.

A woman who aided the abduction of a four-year-old-girl, who was later shot dead by her father and captor before he turned his gun on himself, was jailed for two years today.

A WOMAN who helped a former teacher abduct his daughter from his estranged partner will be sentenced for the crime tomorrow.

Neans McSweeney reports from Clonmel on the conclusion of a heart-rending case

TWO distraught families will gather separately today to remember a father and daughter who died tragically in a double shooting one year ago.

A woman appeared in court today in connection with the abduction of a six-year-old girl believed to have been shot dead by her father before he killed himself in a house at Clonmel, Co Tipperary, in August last year.

An inquest into the deaths of six-year-old Deirdre Crowley and her father Christopher has heard that both died of a single shotgun wound to the head.

Gardai investigating the tragic deaths of six-year-old Deirdre Crowley and her father Christopher have said they did not know they were in the house when they first called.