FAMILY and friends of 13-year-old Nicole O’Brien, who drowned after saving her younger sister from the sea off west Cork, gathered last night for her removal.

A FAMILY flew out of an airport leaving their two-year-old boy behind and only discovered he was missing when contacted during the next leg of the trip.

FAMILY and friends of Derek O’Toole gathered in his native west Dublin yesterday to pay their final tributes to the young man who died in mysterious circumstances more than a week ago.

DARREN SUTHERLAND packed eight months of frustration into five minutes of boxing last night before he stopped Eddie Healy (Portlaoise) midway through the third round of the middleweight semi-final at the National Stadium.