THE father of a man who died in an area blighted by suicides told a public debate yesterday of the “stress and heartache” he suffered by repeatedly seeing his son’s photograph in the press.

A teenager tried hanging herself the day after another girl became the latest young person to die in the same community, her mother said today.

Drinkers at a village pub had a surprise when an Oscar-winning Hollywood actress popped in for a Guinness and a roll-up cigarette.

The largest tile retailer in Ireland today came to the rescue of the Tiles R Us chain which collapsed into administration last month with debts of £15m (€21.8m).