76 women and 100 children received support from a Dublin based domestic abuse service in just one day.

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.

AOIBHNEAS translated means blissfulness, which in the list of house names is not a bad moniker for one’s gaff.