Now that I’m old (and vulnerable) my state wants to keep me safe while they’re giving me stuff, writes Fergus Finlay

Some mother-and-daughter relationships are distant while others near suffocating. In the run-up to Mother’s Day, Ailin Quinlan met three mothers and their daughters who manage to work together.

I HAVE no intention of going anywhere. I’m grand. Fit as a fiddle. I’ve passed that point where, as comedian Billy Connolly says, every movement is accompanied by an involuntary groan, writes Fergus Finlay

ALL they ever wanted from the HSE was the truth about why their beloved sister died. And an apology.

Considering the tragic nature of his death, the words of Fr Seamus Houlihan at last night’s removal of the late Shane McEntee were all the more poignant to those in attendance.

A TEAM of archeology students from around the world are working together to reveal the secrets of Trim in Co Meath on what was once wasteland used for illegal dumping.

THE mother of a baby, whose au pair died rescuing the child from under the wheels of a lorry, has called on trucking companies to act now and not wait for months before installing blind spot mirrors.

Jim O’Sullivan

EUROPE’s new ambassador to the United States, John Bruton, who took up office yesterday, plans to concentrate on the business links between the two blocs.

THE father of a German au pair crushed to death by a truck in Cork earlier this year said yesterday his daughter’s spirit lives on through the life of the child she saved.

ONE minute he was relaxing in his bedroom awaiting the call to get on the bus taking the new All-Ireland SFC champions on a memorable trip home, the next, he was being mobbed in the foyer of the Burlington Hotel as he alighted from the lift with his wife Finola.