The tragic case in Cobh, Co Cork, highlights the treatment of those with mental disorders by the criminal justice system.

Garda plans to interview the injured daughter of a couple who died in an apparent murder-suicide have been put on hold to allow her time to recover.

The Health Service Executive is reportedly set to review the case of Cork man Michael Greaney - who died alongside his wife on Sunday - less than two months after leaving the Central Mental Hospital in Dublin.

The teenage daughter of a couple who died in an apparent murder-suicide wrote a poignant message on her Facebook page earlier this year urging people not to consider taking their own lives.

TO A TOURIST, the subdued mood in the seaport town of Cobh probably seemed no more than a dose of the post-Christmas blues, but for locals the picture was far darker.

The Bishop of Cloyne has asked for prayers from the diocese following a suspected murder-suicide stabbing, involving a man who worked in the gardens of the Bishop's palace.

The husband and wife who died in a multiple stabbing at their family home in Cobh, Co Cork today have been named locally as physiotherapist Michael Greaney, 63, and his wife Valerie, aged in her 60s.

Ireland’s bankers and bailout masters are pressing the Government to make it easier to seize homes bought as investments to rent out as defaults on the loans surge.

It took a week but finally some of the Volvo Ocean Race sailors found an Irish star they wanted their picture taken with.

If you thought Riverdance made Irish culture sexy, then brace yourself.

ONE of the last bastions of male domination will crumble this weekend as women make history and join the usually all-male entry at the annual all-Ireland Culchie Festival.

INTERNATIONAL credit ratings agency, Fitch Ratings has warned of “further downside risks” to Irish house prices; adding that prices could ultimately fall by 67% from peak levels in a worst-case scenario.

FEARS over mass mortgage defaults and the viability of the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA) intensified last night amid shock new warnings that the property market has much further to fall.

Cavan 0-16 Warwickshire 0-12

Monaghan 1-15 Donegal 1-14

Monaghan 2-15 Cavan 1-16

ALLIANZ NHL DIVISION 4: Monaghan 3-11 Leitrim 0-6

Monaghan's hurlers beat the South Down selection 2-10 to 3-03 at Clones this afternoon to record their first win of the 2008 NHL Division 4.

A RECORD attendance for Tuesday at the Galway Races enjoyed sunshine, crowd-pleasing winners and a great cure for a Monday night session.

Ballybrown 1-14 Ahane 2-11