A couple and their eight-year-old daughter have been found dead in an apparent murder-suicide at a luxury apartment building in New Jersey.

I am normally a fan of Victoria White’s excellent and perceptive column. But her article on Nellie Organ (Irish Examiner, 27 August) displays a profound lack of insight into the central mysteries of Christianity, whether of Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant variety.

For too long people accepted the terrible toll of infant deaths like Little Nellie’s. Victoria White says we shouldn’t be trying to exhume her, but rather remember her with a fight for universal health care.

The Bishop of Cork and Ross has called for the exhumation of the remains of Little Nellie — the “unofficial patron saint” of Cork — from a cemetery on lands controlled by receivers to allow people to pray at her grave.

The Wild Atlantic Way is good for business along Ireland’s indented coastline, say the couple about to sell up a well-performing local shop and cafe/restaurant, which they’ve developed through the recession.

Mourners at the funeral of Thomas Ruttle, the 56-year-old Co Limerick man who died in a suicide pact with his partner, Julia Holmes, 63, were told yesterday this was not the time for blame and anger.

The grandmother of the three children who were injured in the horrific petrol bomb attack has today spoken of the events that took place last night.

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DUBLIN is crawling out from the collapsed dreams of the Celtic Tiger, fizzing with energy and new openings, and preferring ideas to greed, imagination to rampant development.

The family of a US heroine who is set to be commemorated for her extraordinary courage in sacrificing her life to save fellow workers in a factory inferno have traced her roots to West Cork.

The best of what's on the box from April 13-19. Simon Cowell is back on Britain’s Got Talent.

Two elderly sisters who were terrorised and robbed for €100 last weekend were expected to return to their country cottage last night after being cared for in a nursing home for several days.

Our economy is hanging on by its finger nails. We are borrowed to the hilt and will be paying it back forever. One of the saving graces we still have is the continuing growth of our exports. largely thanks to multinationals.

Shoppers in a Cork city suburb got a bit of a surprise yesterday when an elephant decided to wander around a retail carpark before charging up to a traffic junction.

A man in Britain has been charged in connection with the death of a grandmother who fell and died fighting to keep hold of her handbag containing her husband’s ashes.

Instead of reviving the original show, director Marian Wyatt chose to make an even more ambitious play, says Colette Sheridan

Marine investigators have called for small fishing boats to carry rocket distress flares after a father and son perished at sea, it was revealed today.

SHOCKED, devastated, gutted, fearful about the future — the reactions of workers at Cappoquin Chickens after the cloud that hung over the plant all summer finally burst yesterday afternoon.

TUCKS NELLIE stands out in the second semi-final of the Munster Greyhound Supplies A4 Stakes at Youghal tonight.

PAUL Carberry dominated yesterday’s action at Gowran Park, completing a fine treble on The Dotted Line, Signatory and Sunshine Guest.

TRIBUTES poured in yesterday as news emerged of the death of former Labour TD Joe Sherlock, aged 71.

Scarlett Johansson has fuelled reports she will star in the New York City production of South Pacific, after declaring her love for the musical during an interview.

GARDAÍ further shortened the list of suspects in the murder of Martin “Marlo” Hyland yesterday as the removal of the crime boss took place last night.

MY husband and I live in rural Alaska. We have a kennel of sled dogs and in the winter do a variety of things, including racing, running tours and undertaking expeditions.

Neglect and filth marked Evelyn Joel's passing, writes Catherine Shanahan.

A MAN whose throat was slit may have been attacked by more than one person.

GRUESOME details of murders committed by British women in the early 20th century were made available to the public yesterday.

IT was exactly 12.30pm when the shots rang out and John F Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States of America, slumped forward in the open-top limousine carrying him through the streets of Dallas.

AN inquest into the death of Moors murderer Myra Hindley will open today. The hearing will take place at Highpoint prison near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England at 3pm. It will be overseen by Greater Suffolk coroner Peter Dean.

Secrecy today surrounded the funeral arrangements for Moors Murderer Myra Hindley.

WINNING at the Galway Races demands fine attention to detail and a bit of luck, especially when the course is filled with potential champions.