A heroin addict who relapsed after his child’s cot death and turned dealer to feed his habit because he "didn’t want to go out robbing" has received a three year suspended sentence.

A WEXFORD family is today making plans for the funeral of their only son who died after falling from an apartment balcony while on holiday in Spain with his girlfriend.

ONE of the two men who lost their lives in a fire in Donegal early yesterday was a father of six children.

WITH Ireland’s blandest of the bland entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, is it not imperative that RTE and the panel of ‘expert’ judges now do the right thing?

I WRITE in response to the recent series of ad-hoc surveys and reports which purport to rank schools and counties in regard to percentage of students progressing to third-level education.