Gardaí in Clifden, Co Galway, have issued an appeal for witnesses after a small rural church was extensively damaged by vandals.

A community plans to honour a defiant former parish priest whose eviction from the parochial house in the late 1800s helped inspire the Land League movement in Cork.

A postmortem to be carried out this morning will determine if gardaí launch a murder inquiry, or decide the death of a Polish man was accidental.

Carmel Winters’ latest play explores how new communities are created when people are displaced by conflicts and war, says Colette Sheridan.