A family have been left "traumatised" after their historic family home was destroyed by fire in the heritage town of Adare today.

FRESH from the success of selling a million euro artwork in Dublin last week auctioneers James Adam will hold the annual Country House Collections sale at Slane Castle, Co.

Doctors treated storm casualties in a makeshift clinic after Hurricane Felix flooded their hospital and wrecked villages on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast.

Felix slammed into Central America’s remote Miskito coastline and Henriette slammed into resorts on the tip of Baja California as a record-setting hurricane season got even wilder with twin storms making landfall on the same day.

Hurricane Felix, a dangerous Category 5 storm, drove through the Caribbean today toward Central America, where forecasters said it could arrive as a “potentially catastrophic” storm.