TARA O’NEILL stands empty-handed and defiant outside a Marks & Spencer store on Dublin’s busiest shopping street. She won’t be tempted to buy anything.

A MAN who was found not guilty, by reason of insanity, of setting fire to a neighbour’s house in Bantry was committed to the Central Mental Hospital for treatment by court order.

THE hats may have been creative, colourful and attention-seeking, but it was a woman in a striking black and white dress that most impressed in the haute couture stakes, at Killarney Races.

PARENTS fighting for a rehab bed for their paralysed daughter were devastated last night after being told that she has contracted the MRSA superbug.

THIS year’s first All-Ireland junior championship semi-final takes place tomorrow when Cork take on Wexford, while, on Sunday, Roscommon take the long road to Strangford to take on Down in the other semi-final.

AN elderly Killarney woman has forced the local council to remove her picture-postcard shop from its list of protected structures.