The four-legged stars had to take a back seat at the Dublin Horse Show as the country’s snappiest ladies fought to put in a fault-free round to take the best-dressed honours.

EIGHT years after Stephen Byrne drove the car containing his two sons and himself off Duncannon pier, three years after Sharon Grace drowned herself and her two daughters on a lonely stretch of Wexford coastline, and one year after the Dunne family were found dead in their house in Monageer, last weekend’s events in Clonroche have once again stunned the south-east.

THE murder of a Kilkenny mother of two has sent shock-waves through the city.

An inquest has begun into the deaths of a woman and her two young sons in Cuffsgrange, Co Kilkenny.