Hundreds of mourners are expected to gather for the funeral of eight-year-old Anthony Ward from Co Cork later today.

The mother of a boy found dead at his home in north Cork has been charged with his murder.

Gardaí will today resume questioning a 43-year-old mother in connection with the death of her only child at a house in North Cork.

A HORRIFIC car crash in which four young people died in Kerry, spread “darkness over the whole land”, a priest at a funeral Mass for two of the victims said on Saturday.

Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral Mass of the two brothers who died in last Wednesday's crash in Kerry, which claimed four lives.

The funerals of three of the teenagers who died in last Wednesday's crash in Kerry take place this morning.

UPWARDS of 1,000 sympathisers filed past the remains of two brothers killed in the horrific Co Kerry crash on Wednesday.

The funeral takes place in Limerick this afternoon of Fr Jeremiah Roche who was killed during a robbery in Kenya last week.

KENYAN police have arrested three men who they suspect were involved in the murder of Co Limerick born missionary, Fr Jer Roche, who was attacked in his house in the Kericho region last Friday.

Fourteen people were killed when a plane crashed in a cemetery as it approached an airport in Montana, officials said today.

GARDAÍ in Kerry are investigating an attack on a black marble stone placed at the grave of the infamous Kerry baby.