A legend, a leader, a braveheart, a kind, loving and spiritual man were among the accolades used to describe Willie Duggan at his funeral Mass, when more than 1,000 people gathered to say farewell to a giant of Irish and international rugby.

A one-year-old baby boy has died in an accident on a farm in Co Kilkenny this afternoon.

The devastated parents of Jake Brennan released two doves into the sky at his funeral yesterday as they continued to struggle to come to terms with his death.

A hill farmer who ambushed and assaulted a neighbour on a remote road near the Cork-Kerry mountains was yesterday jailed for 12 months.