Tommy Barker scans the late poet Seán Ó Tuama’s family home on the outskirts of Cork city, mixing country living with city convenience, views of the Lee Fields, and a unique place in Irish literary history

A “callous and brutal” father who murdered his baby daughter by repeatedly biting, punching and shaking her has been jailed for life in the UK for a minimum of 22 years.

A Palestinian militant leader today said a captured Israeli soldier was being held in a “secure place,” and he claimed that his group also seized a Jewish settler in the West Bank.