Cork poet Bernard O’Donoghue is on the shortlist for next week’s TS Eliot prize. He tells Colette Sheridan why, though he moved to the UK many years ago, his home area still has such a presence in his poetry.

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TRAGEDY visited a Co Tipperary family for the second time yesterday morning when their 35-year-old son was stabbed to death in a Clonmel apartment.