A pharmacist who murdered her next-door neighbour using a crucifix on Christmas Day was jailed today for a minimum of 20 years.

The funeral took place today of a pensioner found murdered in her home on Christmas Day.

Police in Co. Down are now treating the death of an elderly woman in Newry as murder.

Spanish police are continuing their investigations into the killing of an Irish woman who was beaten to death on Christmas Eve on Tenerife.