As the 60th anniversary of the first Everest climb approaches, Conall Ó Fátharta looks back on the achievement of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

Rugby player Paul O’Connell is to receive the Freedom of Limerick city.

VISITORS who are allowed in to see a man being involuntary detained in a Cork mental health facility for almost six years are being screened by his doctors, it has been claimed.

MENTAL health campaigner John McCarthy has criticised a statement from Ireland’s psychiatrists defending the quality of the country’s mental health services and its role in advocating for mental health patients.

THE use of force within the mental health services whereby people can be incarcerated and treated against their will must be stopped.

A 30-YEAR-OLD man who has been involuntarily detained in a psychiatric unit in Cork for almost six years is set to be transferred to the Central Mental Hospital (CMH).

FIRST, congratulations to the Irish Examiner’s Jennifer Hough for the excellent special investigation into the topsy-turvy world of mental health treatment in Ireland.

Grainne Humphrys has spent years fighting a mental health system that she claims is doing her former partner more harm that good

MEG WALSH told her husband she wouldn’t make a formal complaint to gardaí after he assaulted her if he signed their home over to her, a court heard yesterday.

DOCTORS, carers, campaigners and former patients have spoken out against “abusive, dehumanising and discriminatory” mental health services at a unique “recovery” conference at UCC yesterday.

JOHN Hunt turned 30 on Saturday and spent the day as a free man.

A car key given to gardaí by a Waterford man on trial for the murder of his wife was not a spare as he had claimed a Central Criminal Court jury.

Meg Walsh's husband told gardaí a 'pack of lies' when they interviewed him about the murder of his wife, a garda witness has told a Central Criminal Court jury.

A Waterford woman whose husband is currently on trial for her murder was in the water for at least “several days” before her body was pulled from the River Suir, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

THE husband of murder victim Meg (Margaret) Walsh, whose body was recovered from a river in Waterford last year, was yesterday charged with her murder.

“ALL we want to do now is to get Meg home to our parents and give her the final send-off she deserves,” a tearful James Walsh said yesterday as he prepared to leave Waterford after a 12-day search for his sister ended with the discovery of her body.

NEWCASTLE WEST’S business community last night warned of the anger, fear and frustration running high in the area over the Castlemahon Food Products’ liquidation decision.

Not for the first time, Sean Boylan has been nominated for the positon of Meath senior hurling manager.

ULSTER Bank has strengthened its property finance wing, with four key appointments and moves to swell its property finance division from five to nine regional centres.

Two Bronze Age crannogs, burned down two years ago, were today re-opened to the public after being completely rebuilt.

Eamon McEneaney's appointment as Louth manager yesterday completed the sideline shuffles and reshuffles for next year's Football Championship. Only two hurling posts are yet to be filled. Brendan O'Brien tours the country for an end-of-season report.

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ONE of Limerick’s most historic houses, owned by the late John Hunt, has been badly damaged in repeated vandal attacks.

THE University of Limerick yesterday saluted a lawyer, an entrepreneur, a politician and a philanthropist with honorary doctorates.

The former President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox, and the late art historian and philanthropist, John Hunt, have been awarded honorary degrees at the University of Limerick.

PRICELESS antique furnishings and tapestries in Bunratty Castle are being assessed to ensure they do not contain works stolen by the Nazis.

RICHARD HARRIS and Frank McCourt have achieved international recognition.

John Hunt is to stay on as Meath senior hurling manager, but it's believed that not everyone is pleased with the appointment.

CROKE PARK chiefs will meet with the local Residents’ Association next month to assess the findings of an independent body which has been monitoring relations between the two groups this year.

The art historian, author and reviewer, John Hunt has died. The 47-year-old had been ill for some time.

Meath hurling has been left in chaos with the possibility that the county team won't fulfill this Saturday's All-Ireland B tie against Roscommon.

The Meath hurling panel have revealed their frustration with the current management team and submitted a letter of dissatisfaction to the county board.

STEPHEN McDONAGH has ended a 12-year involvement with Limerick senior hurlers by announcing his retirement from inter-county activity.

Meath hurling boss John Hunt has dug his heels in and refused to take his side to Down to fulfill their NHL fixture this Sunday.

MEATH senior hurling manager John Hunt has refused to play Sunday’s re-arranged NHL Division 2 Group 1 tie against Down in Portaferry.

After a season of resignations, sackings and splits, the intercounty management landscape is dramatically reshaped. Brendan Larkin, Brendan Mooney and Mark Gallagher report.

Former Limerick boss Eamon Cregan has agreed to help out in a coaching role with the Meath hurlers following the appointment of manager John Hunt.

JOHN COURTNEY, who was approached to manage the Wexford senior footballers, has launched a stinging criticism of the Board for their handling of the process.

A 29-YEAR-OLD man who allegedly circumcised a baby with a razor blade has been remanded in custody to appear before Clover Hill District Court tomorrow.