A 26-year-old man who was seriously ill with a diabetes-related condition signed himself out of hospital against medical advice and was found dead at home hours later, an inquest has heard.

Glowing tributes were paid to Michael John Shinnick at his funeral in Glanworth, Co Cork yesterday.

THE funeral takes place today in Kilmallock of a Co Limerick chemist who died in a road accident near Mallow.

ONE man dropped his wife off at the maternity ward and returned to play his round of golf, but even he couldn’t upstage mobile phone magnate Denis O’Brien — who had the mother of all chip shots.

Hundreds of mourners gathered today for the funeral of Garda Michael Padden at Shanaghy Church on the Mullet peninsula in Belmullet, Co Mayo.