The US singer tells Don O’Mahony how her grandfather’s passing has evoked memories of blissful childhood days visiting West Cork, and how it’s all echoed in her new album

A gunman holding a five-year-old boy hostage in a bunker continued to keep police at bay in a siege that began when he killed a school bus driver and dragged the child away.

ISRAELI troops killed a 95-year-old woman yesterday when they shot at a car that was driving down a West Bank road closed to Palestinians, a survivor said.