The heartbroken mother of a 31-year-old man who was fatally stabbed in Cork City broke down in tears at his Requiem Mass and said she would “love and miss him forever”.

Thousands of neo-Nazis and their opponents massed today in the eastern German city of Dresden on the 65th anniversary of the deadly Allied bombing at the end of the Second World War

A PHOTO of 22-year-old Kevin Sinnott hung at the end of his coffin as it lay in front of the altar of a Co Cork church before his requiem Mass yesterday morning.

A SINGLE red rose adorned the coffin of 20-year-old Joanne Mangan at the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Newcastle, as her heartbroken parents, siblings, relatives and friends gathered to say farewell.

THE Bishop of Kerry, Dr Bill Murphy, has urged people, especially parents, to encourage vocations in young people.

Police in the North are investigating a paint bomb attack on a Catholic church in Co Antrim overnight.

German authorities evacuated thousands of people near Dresden's historic centre today as floodwaters in the Elbe River reached an all-time high, also spilling into a square close to some of the city's cultural landmarks.