“A lot of people were standing... including children.” Eyewitness Emmet Doyle, recounting what happened in Derry on Thursday night, said he saw the young woman being shot.

A young Irish nun described by her family as a superstar died with five others in Saturday’s Ecuador earthquake as she tried to lead them to safety.

MANY parents have a child who wets the bed. Research shows that bed-wetting occurs in more than half of Irish families, but children still feel distressed and humiliated when they do it. Also, parents worry the children miss out on many of the activities that are part and parcel of childhood.

The youth wing of Fianna Fáil is to have its own society at a Northern Ireland university.