There comes a time in a parent’s life where they realise their child will not have a notion about things in the past we took for granted, writes Colm O’Regan.

The 19th century Cork artist, Daniel MacDonald, was the only painter brave enough to paint the Famine as it was happening, and Professor Niamh O’Sullivan is appealing to people in the Cork area to scour their attics for his valuable work.

Two brothers who robbed the MacDonald’s at Superquinn in Lucan has been jailed for six and four years respectively by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.