Up to 400 people, most of them women, turned out in the Square in Tralee yesterday evening in a show of support for Emma Mhic Mhathúna, the 37-year-old mother of five whose smear test failed to detect cancer warning signs and who now has terminal cancer.

A 26-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder and is expected to appear before Belfast Magistrates Court this morning.

There was delight yesterday at a small West Cork school which will keep its three classroom teachers next September after a change in Government policy.

A 17-year-old youth has been beaten with a hammer in Belfast city centre.

It was like 1992 all over again, with a team from Co Clare coming to the heart of Co Cork football territory, and taking home the trophies.