A mere speck compared to the giant Bere Island beside it, and into one of whose fields it would easily fit, Roancarrigmore Island is of such diminutive size that its north/ south axis can be traversed in 30 seconds.

A ‘lovesick’ east Clare man ‘dog-napped’ a little terrier called Red as part of a campaign of harassment that made a single mother’s life hell, a court has heard.

Work is to begin next week on filling a sink hole that has appeared in a military cemetery in Wales, swallowing the grave of a soldier from Co Longford called Private Ryan.