One of the consequences of the murder of Lyra McKee, who will be buried today, in Derry last week is the sobering reminder that an enduring evil festers barely beneath the surface of this society.

The young woman found wandering in a confused and distressed state by gardaí in Dublin last month may be suffering from a psychiatric condition, the High Court heard yesterday.

THE ruin hugs the rugged shore straddling the bays of Ballinskelligs and Waterville. Once upon a long ago it was a hotel. Today it sits in an overgrown field, a three-storey concrete skeleton, like something lifted from a bomb-ravaged city. You can walk up and look inside the walls at the rubble, the moth eaten furniture, the sepia-toned dreams pummelled by time.

A youth has been detained for five months for stealing €200 from a man who was distracted while withdrawing money from an ATM on Dublin’s O’Connell St.