Oscar-winning Hollywood icon Jeremy Irons has given his time free of charge to help a heritage centre produce a series of short films detailing harrowing, true stories of the Great Famine in Skibbereen, Co Cork.

A 27-year-old man admitted assaulting a 65-year-old man at the back door of a pub in Kanturk, Co Cork, but pleaded not guilty to manslaughter yesterday.

Moy Park — the North’s largest private-sector employer and one of the leading poultry producers in Europe — has changed ownership as part of a $1.5 billion (€1.3bn) takeover deal.

“I CAN never get into a relationship again. I can’t trust men. I have two little girls, I can’t trust men whatsoever around them. I’m always overprotective and paranoid. I don’t have confidence around men.”