The clinical director of One in Four has said the families of those caught and convicted for offences including possession of child abuse images must accept that their lives will never be the same and ideally adopt a role in helping to monitor the offender into the future.

Storm Desmond is being credited with the return of religious items, including a set of rosary beads, to a woman in Co Kerry in a bizarre story in which a hunter mistook her stolen bag for a sitting duck.