Having worked as an estate agent in the vast expanse of Texas, there was no way the woman of this house was ever going to build small, or put up with pokey rooms, when she returned to her native Cork, writes Tommy Barker. 

Irish “medicinal cannabis refugee” Ava Barry, 8, arrived home from The Hague over the weekend with her parents and was reunited with her siblings for a family Christmas.

Vera Twomey believes her daughter could have died earlier this month if she had not started taking a cannabis-based treatment.

A council worker died yesterday after he was struck by a falling pole.