Set on October 31 in Cleveland, when the entire city dons fancy dress to trick-or-treat, ‘Fun Size’ is the sort of upbeat coming-of-age story that John Hughes made almost 30 years ago.

HAD YOU approached Gerald Lawless, when he was a teenager in Galway, and said the word ‘Dubai’ he probably would have thought you were enquiring about some sort of purchase he had made.

A 42-year-old Louth man has been found guilty of the murder of a young German woman in Co Meath in 2001 at the Central Criminal court today.