A couple, who claim they have had to live in Thailand for several years in a bid to adopt their late son’s abandoned child, have lost their Dublin home in a bank repossession case.

Could there be a more appropriate, atmospheric time to launch the sale of Carrigrohane Castle than All Hallows Eve, or Halloween?

The winter garden of Hester Forde, Coosheen in Glounthaune, Co Cork, will open for the viewing of snowdrops and early spring bulbs on Saturday, January 28, and Saturday, February 11, from 11am. Snowdrops and spring bulbs for sale. Park on main road. Entry fee will aid Marymount Hospice.

RELATIVES of victims of the Dublin/Monaghan bombings have asked the High Court to order the Taoiseach to release documents from the McEntee Inquiry into the atrocity.