Gardaí yesterday said there appeared to be "no warning signs" within a rural Sligo family that could have flagged the appalling murder of a nine-year-old boy and the subsequent suicide of his 21-year-old brother.

What do our soldiers serving abroad long for at Christmas time? Their spouses know best, as Helen O’Callaghan discovered, when she spoke to army wives busy wrapping their present-filled giftboxes

Shane Richie's wife has given birth to a baby girl.

Jane Kirby