The death of a mother and daughter in a tragic car crash just three days before Christmas has numbed the north Cork areas of Kilworth and Fermoy.

Rosary, 16 Ardfallen Estate in Douglas is exactly they type of house that many trade up buyers in Cork are out hunting for.

Brian O’Driscoll… Pray for us… AP McCoy… Pray for us… Henry Shefflin… Pray for us… Ruby Walsh…. Pray for us.

He’s known as the hard-living, sharp-tongued soccer pundit who’s always ready to put the boot in.

It was a sight seldom seen these days: Crowds spilling out of a Cork city centre church as queues formed outside and more waited in line for the next Mass.

Members of a religious group in Limerick have begun saying a decade of the Rosary several nights a week outside a suspected brothel in the city to “pray for the women” in prostitution.

THE voice was an eerie guttural, horrible sound, ferociously angry.

Tony Mansfield, whose death took place in Cork on Sunday at the age of 73, was a leading figure in Waterford GAA, a member of the squad which contested the All-Ireland hurling final of 1963 against Kilkenny and going on to manage the 1992 U21 team which won the county’s only national title in the grade.

A bright light went out yesterday in Irish sport and news journalism with the death after a brief illness of one of its best known practitioners — John A Murphy.

Night terrors and nerves gave way to relief and resolve following English Paper 1 at Mt Saint Michael’s in Rosscarbery, Co Cork yesterday.

John Egan will be remembered as one of Kerry’s greatest footballers, according to his former team-mate Eoin ‘Bomber’ Liston.

David Creedon’s photographs of old country houses evoke the lives of their departed owners, writes Carl Dixon

A TERRIFIED schoolgirl made a frantic 999 call moments before she died along with six other family members in a house fire started by her father, an inquest has heard.

Relatives wept today as they listened to a harrowing 999 call made by a terrified schoolgirl moments before she died with six other family members in a house fire started by her father.

HUNDREDS of people gathered last night in an all-night vigil to pray at the stump of a felled tree which locals in west Co Limerick claim projects an image of Our Lady.

PROTESTERS who forced the cancellation of a controversial euthanasia lecture have been branded “religious zealots” whose actions should be condemned.

Eamon de Valera refused a “dying request” for him to attend a commemoration of Michael Collins, newly released official files reveal.

SAINT Veronica has been sidelined and Judas gets a prominent spot in the new Stations of the Cross, announced last night by Pope Benedict.

A YOUNG student nurse who was on her way to work was killed close to her home yesterday morning in a head-on collision with a cement truck.

MORE than 500 family friends and work colleagues gathered together in silent mourning last night to escort the body of murdered teenager Sheola Keaney to Cobh Cathedral ahead of her burial this afternoon.

A memorial for two teenage victims of a loyalist car bomb is to be built in a small Cavan town, it emerged today.

WAYNE O’DONOGHUE did not flinch as the prosecution outlined horrific details of how he allegedly killed an 11-year-old schoolboy.

Pope Benedict XVI today urged Polish pilgrims to pray for the beatification of Pope John Paul II, saying his predecessor’s teachings and life were important for the faithful today.

THE final decommissioning of the IRA arms last weekend was not the first time the organisation has dumped its weapons.

AN Irish couple yesterday told how they cheated death on their honeymoon after a stolen car ploughed into a crowded pavement on the Las Vegas strip.

AT first they sang him a lullaby, then they tried rousing him with cheers.

BUSINESSES in Killorglin, Co Kerry, are to shut down for one hour in protest over Health Minister Micheál Martin's refusal to intervene to help a local man get a life-saving lung transplant.

A group of people huddled in a stairwell in fear for their lives and praying as gunfire echoed outside on Bloody Sunday, it was claimed today.