IT WILL be their third Christmas without a beloved mother and wife but still no one has been held accountable for her death.

SILVER tongued delegates will talk nothing but gold in Limerick next week.

IN recent years, Jim and Catherine McCarthy spent much of their life working out where they wanted to visit across Europe.

A FAMILY is seeking a garda investigation into 15 hours of missing nursing records in the case of a mother who died from a perforated ulcer that had been diagnosed as constipation.

THE woman who formed an organisation to represent women infected with hepatitis C through the anti-D blood product, has been appointed to the Board of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service.

IT’S another world as far as children of today are concerned — a place apart with smoke curling from the chimneys of thatched houses, horses ploughing and homely women in aprons baking bread.

James Bond star Roger Moore left hospital today after undergoing surgery to be fitted with a pacemaker.

A priceless hoard of ancient jewellery has gone on display in Co Mayo.

A PRICELESS hoard of Bronze Age treasure discovered last November is to go on public display.

An ancient piece of Bronze Age jewellery thought to be more than 3,000 years old was being heavily guarded today after a man simply walked into a jewellers and asked what it was.