It was apt that Killarney National Park should look its most blooming yesterday for an occasion to celebrate the life of someone whose family’s generosity led to its creation.

The cellar where Austria’s Josef Fritzl held his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven of her children is being filled with cement.

The case of three women held captive in a suburban home in Cleveland has brought to mind kidnappings elsewhere, including that of Austrian schoolgirl Natascha Kampusch in 1998.

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Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who fathered seven children with his own daughter in a homemade dungeon, has divorced his wife of 55 years — because she has never visited him in prison.

News Corporation lawyers are asking a US judge to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit alleging that company directors allowed a damaging cover-up of the phone hacking scandal in Britain.

Former Sun and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks is expected to lift the lid on her close relationship with British Prime Minister David Cameron in evidence to the Leveson Inquiry today.

David Cameron texted Rebekah Brooks telling her to “keep her head up” in the week that she resigned as chief executive of News International, it has been alleged.

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The daughter of Rupert Murdoch will not be joining the board of her father’s News Corporation conglomerate as expected, the company said.

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron and his most senior colleagues must “come clean” over their dealings with the Murdochs, Labour said yesterday.

FORMER News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks yesterday became the most high-profile casualty of the phone-hacking scandal, quitting as chief executive of News International.

British Prime Minister David Cameron believes Rebekah Brooks took “the right decision” in quitting as chief executive of News International in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World, Downing Street said today.

A GERMAN trucker admitted yesterday to fathering seven children with his stepdaughter, but denied sexually abusing her, her brother and his biological daughter over a 23-year alleged reign of terror.

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JOSEF FRITZL has been sentenced to life in a secure mental unit for locking up and raping his daughter in a cellar over 24 years, fathering seven children with her and causing the death of his own infant son.

Evil Joseph Fritzl will spend the rest of his life locked up for the crimes that shocked the world.

Evil Josef Fritzl was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars today for fathering seven children by raping his daughter and allowing one to die through neglect.

Incest monster Josef Fritzl made a pathetic plea for mercy today from the jury that will decide his sentence.

IN a stunning turn of events, an Austrian on trial for imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children pleaded guilty yesterday to all charges against him — including homicide. The move came after his daughter appeared unexpectedly in the courtroom.

Josef Fritzl came face to face with the daughter he raped for 24 years at his trial, sources confirmed today.

Josef Fritzl pleaded guilty today to all of the charges against him – including homicide – at his incest-imprisonment trial in Austria.

THE full harrowing ordeal suffered by incest rapist Josef Fritzl’s daughter was revealed in 11 hours of video evidence yesterday.

The full harrowing ordeal suffered by incest rapist Josef Fritzl’s daughter was spelled out in 11 hours of her video evidence to his trial today.

Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl returned to the courtroom today for the second day of his trial on charges he imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered her seven children.

The jury trying incest rapist Josef Fritzl will hear more evidence today from the daughter he imprisoned in a home-made dungeon for 24 years while fathering seven children by her.

Josef Fritzl repeatedly raped his daughter in front of the children he had already fathered by her during the 24 years he kept her in a secret dungeon, his trial heard today.

A man has gone on trial in Austria accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children.

Joseph Fritzl will go on trial today facing charges of murder, rape, incest, coercion, false imprisonment and enslavement.

The Austrian man accused of holding his daughter in a home-made dungeon for 24 years and fathering her seven children has been charged with murder.

JOSEF Fritzl, the man who imprisoned his daughter in a cellar and fathered her seven children, has admitted to locking up his mother until her death.

AUSTRIAN Josef Fritzl has secretly visited the cellar where he imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, police said yesterday.

The Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children by raping her is expected to go on trial before the end of the year.

THE eldest child from the incestuous relationship between Austrian Josef Fritzl and his daughter Elisabeth has been reunited with her family after recovering from an induced coma.

The daughter of Austrian dungeon kidnapper Josef Fritzl who was in a coma for seven weeks has been reunited with her family, doctors said today.

The daughter of Austrian dungeon father Josef Fritzl whose admission to hospital exposed the scandal has woken from her coma, doctors said today.

The Austrian man accused of fathering seven children with the daughter he held captive for 24 years must remain in custody, a judge ruled today.

The family of Austrian dungeon pervert Josef Fritzl have spoken out for the first time, thanking the public for its support.

Josef Fritzl has insisted he did his best to care for the daughter he repeatedly raped and their seven children.

Dungeon father Josef Fritzl, who had seven children by raping his daughter, is upset at being portrayed as a “monster” by the media, his lawyer revealed today.

The Austrian man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter and fathered seven children with her, first planned to build his secret cell as early as 1978, when his daughter was 12, authorities said today.

The wife of an Austrian man accused of holding their daughter captive for 24 years fought to keep the troubled family together, but never knew their child was in a soundproofed cellar beneath the apartment, her sister said.

The wife of Austria’s accused “horror father” Josef Fritzl never believed her husband was involved in the 24-year disappearance of their daughter, even though he had already served an 18-month prison sentence for a 1967 rape conviction, her sister said.