Five-star luxury and thatched Irish houses don’t normally go hand in hand – with the latter, you normally take the rough (and sometimes uncombed) with the smooth.

A Greek scholar who sent explicit letters and a pink thong to glamour model Jordan was obsessed with the 25-year-old, a court heard today.

A coroner today recorded a verdict of accidental death in the case of a teenager who died after a powerful cancer treatment drug was injected into his spine instead of a vein.