There were poignant scenes as hundreds of people walked the short distance from St Mary's Church in Castlefinn to the nearby graveyard to say a final farewell to the 28-year-old.

Seven houses are in the running to be named Home of the Year 2018 in the conclusion tonight of the TV series.

IT is probably fair to say that most people in Ireland will not have heard of Jacqueline Cullinane. A Google search online will be unlikely to reveal her. Neither will a trawl through newspaper, radio, or TV archives.

Maria Hoey left school at 16 and took an office job in Swords, Co Dublin.

The remains of Alan Hawe, who murdered his wife and children before taking his own life last summer, were exhumed yesterday from the grave he shared with his victims in Cavan.

As 'Jackie' opens in cinemas, Ed Power looks at her love of and visits to Ireland.

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“It breaks our hearts to lose you all, you didn’t go alone, for part of us went with you all, the day God called you home.”

Clodagh Hawe's sister Jacqueline turned to poetry to convey the heartache and deep sense of loss that has engulfed two families and a rural Irish community.

How the First Lady of Irish racing did things ‘the Wittenoom Way’, writes Colm Greaves

The Wishing Trees of St Stephens Green would give anthropologists a field day. One was elegantly decorated with dangling cards neatly printed with lines from the Proclamation of Easter 1916, each one a wish, an ambition, or a dream for the future Ireland.

Season 2 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt returns on April 15th and it looks like Kimmy is going to be as driven and cheery as ever.

A woman has been jailed in the UK for attempting to murder her husband by spiking his cherry Lambrini with anti-freeze on Christmas Day.

The family of a mother of three beaten to death by her husband have honoured her memory by skydiving to raise money for victims of domestic violence.

Eala Beag seems to be improving with practically every run.

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A life sentence has been handed down to a 36-year-old “bare-knuckle boxer” for murdering his wife in an assault that lasted “one hour and 20 minutes” in their home in Dundalk.

A life sentence has been handed down to a 36-year-old ‘bare knuckle boxer’ for murdering his wife in an assault with "a baton-like instrument" that lasted an hour and 20 minutes in their home in Dundalk three years ago.

What a impressive track.

Archbishop of Glasgow Philip Tartaglia has reflected on a “year of joy and sorrow” for the city in his new year message.

Are they women or men. No matter, says Richard Fitzpatrick, because the Lady Boys of Bangkok are great fun.

Jacqueline Jossa is pregnant with Dan Osborne's baby.

Lindsay Lohan has made an unlikely pal in 'The Only Way is Essex' hunk Dan Osborne.

A resident of the Square will find a new lead into the murder investigation that has gripped ‘EastEnders’ fans.

THE last of JFK’s Irish cousins has recalled the devastating day news of his assassination reached the rural homestead where the Kennedy story began.

JAMES Tague was stuck in traffic in downtown Dallas around noon on Nov 22, 1963 when he became an eyewitness to history.

JUST about all the people of the United States who were old enough, remember where they were when they heard that John F. Kennedy was shot.

World’s biggest bagpipe festival ready to tune up

The Aidan O’Brien-trained Indian Maharaja, the first foal of Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Again, proved the star of last night’s action in Gowran Park, storming home an impressive six-and-a-half lengths winner of the Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Maiden, the season’s first juvenile event over a mile.

Caroline Kennedy was just 5 when her father kissed her goodbye and left the US for his visit to Ireland, but she has made that journey in her imagination many times since.

A real life “guardian angel” from the “Gate of Heaven” saved Jacqueline Kennedy from drowning when she holidayed in Co Waterford in 1967.

Kennedy always got close to Irish crowds, writes Ray Ryan

White House planners did not include Cork in the first draft itinerary they prepared for President Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

A BILL that stigmatises gay people and bans giving children any information about homosexuality won overwhelming approval last week in Russia’s lower house of parliament.

Record damages of €4m awarded by the High Court to a 55-year-old woman who was repeatedly raped and abused as a teenager may suggest juries are becoming more aware of the long-term effects of child sexual abuse, according to the Rape Crisis Network.

They will live with the pain of what Joseph Carrick put them through for the rest of their lives, but yesterday Jacqueline O’Toole and Geraldine Nolan got justice.

While the sporting rivalry between Cork and Kerry is well-known, the academic stakes were also raised between the two counties yesterday.

One of the top three students in this year’s Leaving Certificate is hoping for a career at Nasa, the Cern physics research centre or, failing that, in a band.