Director Regan Hall puts cinema audiences under starter’s orders for the 2012 Olympic Games with this feel-good drama of sporting ambition against the odds.

Neighbours of a woman and young child found dead following a shooting incident in Britain today claimed police had failed to prevent the tragedy.

Shania Twain “didn't want to live” after her split from Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange.

Shania Twain is optimistic about her future following her engagement.

Shania Twain and Frederic Thiebaud are set to marry after the Swiss-born Nestle business executive popped the question two months ago in his native country.

NEITHER Collins’ dictionary nor the Oxford Thesaurus will attest to it, yet the word ‘filicide’ has entered the English language to describe the murder of a child by a parent, a notion that is so disturbing it — literally — defies description.

The loss of Sharon Grace and her girls broke hearts and bred anger, writes Caroline O’Doherty

FIVE years ago today — it was a Saturday — a depressed and rejected 28-year-old Sharon Grace, and her daughters, four-year-old Abby and three-year-old Mikahla, left this world because Sharon could neither cope with life nor get the kind of help from the State that might have got her through the terrible dark hours that led to three needless deaths.

DESPITE the corrupting secrecy that does so much to block the advance of our social, political, economic, educational and legal development, we have been exposed to a litany of horrors over the last few years.

TWO-THIRDS of people referred by their GP to a new service to help people with suicidal tendencies before they harm themselves had become overwhelmed by a severe life crisis, it has emerged.

THE HSE is to launch a special mental health campaign next week aimed at people suffering as a direct result of the recession.

THE shock, outrage and deep anger that greeted Mr Justice Seán Ryan and the Child Abuse Commission’s (CAC) report was natural and absolutely justified.

Adrian Dunne asked his family priest days before killing his wife and children if people who take their own lives can get into heaven, an inquest heard today.

The inquests into the deaths of the Dunne family in Co. Wexford two years ago, are due to get underway today.

The inquests into the deaths of the Dunne family in Monageer, Co Wexford, are due to take place next week.

THE option of giving unedited copies of the Monageer tragedy to an Oireachtas committee is being considered, Health Minister Mary Harney has said.

FEWER than 10 families have been recruited nationally under a new out-of-hours safety service to provide emergency foster care for children at risk – two years after a Co Wexford father orchestrated the deaths of his family.

THE Government was accused of covering up the events surrounding the Monageer deaths after parts of a report into the murder-suicide were blacked out.

An edited report into the horrific deaths of the Dunne family in Co Wexford should be read out under the legal protection of the Dáil, it was claimed today.

THE text message from Adrian Dunne’s mobile phone the morning he wiped out his family was almost tender in its simplicity.

THE Dunne family depended on a range of health and welfare services in Donegal and Wexford throughout their lives but there was little co-ordination between the various services or the professionals who provided them.

MORE than two years after the dreadful tragedy at Monageer, where Adrian Dunne murdered his wife Ciara and their two children Shania and Leanne before taking his own life, it is difficult to understand or even accept that it could have happened despite all the glaring warning signs.

A report into the deaths of the Dunne family in Co Wexford has found that the tragedy would not have been avoided even if gardaí or social services had called to the family home.

The long-awaited report into the deaths of the Dunne family in Monageer, Co Wexford, is due to be published later today.

An edited version of the report into the Monageer tragedy is due to be published this Tuesday.

The small Co. Wexford community of Monageer is today marking the second anniversary of the deaths of the Dunne family in April 2007.

An inquiry into the deaths of a family of four in their Co Wexford home last year has been delayed – for the third time.

THIS was supposed to have been a story consigned to the past, a shameful one that would never recur.

An inquiry into the deaths of a family of four in their Co Wexford home last year will report in September.

EIGHT years after Stephen Byrne drove the car containing his two sons and himself off Duncannon pier, three years after Sharon Grace drowned herself and her two daughters on a lonely stretch of Wexford coastline, and one year after the Dunne family were found dead in their house in Monageer, last weekend’s events in Clonroche have once again stunned the south-east.

IRISH society is having to face a growing litany of parents who murder their own children before deciding to escape this life by suicide themselves.

“THIS community has had more than its fair share of tragedy, so people really don’t know what to do any more.”

ONE year after a tragedy that rocked the nation and raised significant questions about how we treat the issues of mental health and child protection, the grieving families of Adrian, 29, Ciara, 26, Lean, 5, and Shania, 3, Dunne are no closer to knowing the truth about how their loved ones died.

CHILD rights campaigners have called for a 24-hour social work service as a matter of urgency on the third anniversary of the deaths of Sharon Grace and her two children in Wexford.

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THE independent team carrying out an inquiry into the tragic deaths of the Dunne family in Monageer has advertised for anyone who could be of assistance to come forward.

Minister for Children, Brendan Smith has published the terms of reference of the independent inquiry into the deaths of the Dunne family in Co Wexford last year.

An independent inquiry into the deaths of the Dunne family in Co Wexford last year is due to get underway today.

LONG-DELAYED plans to introduce 24-hour emergency care for at-risk children won’t be affected by the current recruitment freeze, say HSE bosses.

An elderly couple and their son were found shot dead in the family home in a village, gardaí said tonight.

Mourners sobbed today as they sang You'll Never Walk Alone for the father of the tragic Dunne family, who are to be buried hundreds of miles apart.

Relatives of the young family found dead at their home in Co Wexford on Monday have agreed that their bodies be buried separately.

Gardaí are reportedly investigating the possibility that Co Wexford couple Adrian and Ciara may have agreed a suicide pact before killing their two young daughters over the weekend.

ADRIAN DUNNE had lived with a debilitating eyesight inherited condition since birth but was living a normal and untroubled life, according to a support group for blind people.