TOXICOLOGY tests on an elderly couple found dead in their home in Kilkenny have confirmed they died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

MORE than 1,000 musicians helped drive the blues away as a rain-drenched Cork had another bumper weekend of jazz and razzmatazz.

IT’S said jazz came to America in chains as the native rhythms of imported slaves but it breaks free from all shackles of convention and tradition in this year’s Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.

HEARTBROKEN actress and jazz singer Honor Heffernan yesterday spoke of her family’s devastation following the tragic death of her mother and sister.

Gardaí in Dublin have named the mother and daughter who were found dead in their home in the Stoneybatter area yesterday morning.

JAZZ singer Honor Heffernan is in mourning after the deaths of her mother and sister in an apparent case of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.

Cork's Guinness Jazz Festival is expected to pump over €20m into the Cork economy over the four days of the October bank holiday weekend (Oct 24- 27).

Guinness is set to deliver the biggest ever jazz event in Ireland this October Bank Holiday Weekend (Oct 25 - 28), with a stunning music line-up, specially programmed to celebrate Cork’s 25th year of the festival.