A young husband and wife held hands and jumped together for their lives from the deck of the sinking Lusitana, writes Ray Ryan

A commemoration group is attempting to track relatives of a number of passengers aboard the torpedoed cruise liner Lusitania, almost 100 years ago.

He’s the longest serving MEP in Europe, topping the poll in the last four European elections and despite the toxicity of Fianna Fáil in the 2009 elections, he was once again the biggest vote getter in the country with over 118,000 first preference votes. Nothing, including political polls, suggests this election will be any different.

There’s a photo that has pride of place on a wall in a comfortable home in Cork city, a photo that has been a long, long time in the framing.

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The Alzheimer Society of Ireland and its carers were yesterday poignantly thanked for the help they gave finance minister Michael Noonan’s wife Florence, who died from the disease last Thursday, 14 years after the illness had gripped her life at the age of 54.

Hundreds of mourners have paid their respects at the funeral of Florence Noonan, the wife of the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan.

Hundreds of people in Limerick city are attending the removal of Florence Noonan, the late wife of Minister for Finance Michael Noonan.

As messages of condolence were descending on the Noonan family home in Limerick yesterday, the parish of St Paul in the suburb of Dooradoyle was rekindling memories of a cherished neighbour and gracious, elegant woman.

The political world has expressed its sympathies to Michael Noonan following the death of the finance minister’s wife, Florence.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has expressed the government's deep condolences to Finance Minister Michael Noonan, after the death of his wife.

A MAN who knows Finance Minister Michael Noonan better than most is set to join the ministerial team and over coming years will be closer to the minister than any adviser or civil servant.

RENOWNED for his fine intellect, mastery of the political put-down and often unyielding personality, Michael Noonan has always been seen as a tough-as-old-boots, old style politician, a man who fights on his terms; somebody who won’t be re-cast by shadowy backroom strategists.

MORE than 1,000 people attended the funeral of MEP Brian Crowley’s brother, Flor, yesterday including Taoiseach Brian Cowen and former taoiseach Albert Reynolds.

THE brother of Cork Fianna Fáil MEP Brian Crowley was one of five people killed in road accidents over the Christmas holiday period.

IT WAS never easy to promote hurling in a county like Kerry where football is king.

BUM steers and beaten dockets — bad memories of Ballybrit evaporated in the slipstream of the jet that hurtled us towards the Cotswolds.