The death of Sr Paula Buckley in a double tragedy at Inch Strand last week in Kerry had left two families in mourning, the chief celebrant at her funeral Mass said yesterday.

Two Presentation nuns who died at Inch Strand, in Co Kerry, on Thursday night, are now believed to have drowned, investigators have concluded.

Mystery surrounds the circumstances in which two Presentation nuns died at Inch Strand, in Co Kerry, on Thursday night.

It was the end of another day which had, up to that point, been uneventful for the lifeguards. Just after 7pm, they were routinely taking down the flag at a popular strand in the south-west.

The Presentation Sisters have confirmed that two of their nuns drowned at Inch Beach in Co Kerry last night.

Something you will probably never see Rosscarbery's Warren beach, Skerries, Dollymount strand, Inch Strand or Brittas Bay.

The owner of Offshore Surf School, which operates schools and rents surf equipment on a number of Kerry beaches, has been fined €1,000 for breaching health and safety legislation connected with the death of an American tourist on Inch Strand two years ago.

A man who reversed a large truck carrying surf equipment over a tourist on Inch Strand two years ago has been found not guilty of the charge of dangerous driving causing her death.

It is now understood that the death of an American tourist on Inch Strand in Co Kerry today involved a van transporting surfboards, which was reversing.

STRAIGHT out of a successful sale of 57 acres at Ballynoe, Midleton, Tom Kelly of CCM has just listed a 92-acre tillage farm at Lahard, Whitegate, Co Cork.

THE parents of an 11-year-old boy killed by his neighbour were among the mourners at the removal of a garda superintendent whose tragic death from cancer came in the wake of his doctor’s negligence.

THE Press Ombudsman has upheld part of a complaint by Wayne O’Donoghue’s father Ray against a tabloid newspaper which accused him of “using” Robert’s Holohan’s death to help get planning for a new home.

ONE of the most spectacular beaches in the south west, Rossbeigh, Co Kerry, has been further devastated by winter storms.

The hometown of the young student, Wayne O’Donoghue, convicted of killing schoolboy Robert Holohan is fully prepared for his imminent release, it was claimed tonight.

MEMORIES of heady days in the late 1960s when the cinematic epic Ryan’s Daughter was shot on the Dingle Peninsula will be recalled when one of the stars, Sarah Miles, returns next month.

A HUGE air and sea rescue operation was mounted last night after the discovery of children’s clothing on the beach near where tragic Robert Holohan’s body was found two years ago.

SOME might call it bare-faced cheek, but two of Ireland’s most spectacular beaches feature in a US guide to the Top 100 Places to Get Naked.

THE Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday rejected an appeal by the DPP against the leniency of the four-year prison sentence imposed on student Wayne O’ Donoghue for killing his 11-year-old neighbour Robert Holohan.

Self-confessed child-killer Wayne O’Donoghue, who strangled his young neighbour in 2004, will serve only a four-year jail sentence for the killing, the appeal court ruled today.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions will learn next week if his appeal over the leniency of the sentence handed down to child killer Wayne O’Donoghue was successful.

JUDGES considering the appeal to increase child killer Wayne O’Donoghue’s sentence may be hindered by the Director of Public Prosecution’s (DPP) failure to charge the Corkman with covering up his crime.

THE judge who sentenced child killer Wayne O’Donoghue failed to take into account key features of the Corkman’s characteristics and behaviour in deciding how long he should serve in prison, it was claimed in the Court of Criminal Appeal.

Semen found on the body of schoolboy Robert Holohan was not from his killer Wayne O’Donoghue, a court heard today.

A SHRINE dedicated to the memory of schoolboy Robert Holohan has been desecrated.

A SEMEN sample found on Robert Holohan’s body was a DNA match for Wayne O’Donoghue — with only a 77-million-to-one chance of error, a forensic expert found.

IN the eight days when her son was missing, Majella Holohan quietly suffered the horrors of imagination.

The mother of schoolboy Robert Holohan today claimed semen had been found on her dead son’s body.

THE family of schoolboy Robert Holohan whose killer is to be sentenced next week may be about to move from their home near Midleton in east Cork.

ROBERT HOLOHAN photographed a poster on the bedroom wall of the man accused of murdering him in the early hours of the morning only days before he was killed.

Midleton schoolboy, Robert Holohan, photographed a poster on the bedroom wall of the man accused of murdering him.

WAYNE O’DONOGHUE left flowers at the scene on the day Robert Holohan’s body was found and he stopped to say a prayer.

Wayne O’Donoghue's girlfriend gave evidence today at the Central Criminal Court where he is on trial for the murder of Robert Holohan.

WAYNE O’DONOGHUE looked into his bathroom mirror with a knife held to his throat as 11-year-old Robert Holohan lay dead on the floor.

AFTER Shane Murphy SC had outlined the prosecution case against O’Donoghue, the first witness to take the stand was Garda Laura Bulger.

THE prosecution in the Robert Holohan murder trial claimed yesterday that Wayne O’Donoghue killed the schoolboy, put plastic bags over the body, threw it into a remote ditch, and later took part in the community’s search for the boy’s remains.

MIDLETON schoolboy Robert Holohan died of neck injuries consistent with manual strangulation.

The prosecution in the Robert Holohan murder trial claimed today that Wayne O’Donoghue killed the schoolboy, put plastic bags over the body, threw it into a remote ditch, and later took part in the community search for the boy's remains.

The young man accused of murdering Midleton schoolboy Robert Holohan pleaded not guilty to murder today but admitted the charge of manslaughter.

A 20-year-old student is to stand trial today charged with the murder of a Co Cork schoolboy whose body was found dumped near an isolated beach eight days after he disappeared.

The 20-year-old man accused of murdering Co Cork schoolboy Robert Holohan has succeeded in having his trial delayed until next month.

AN engineering student was yesterday charged with the murder of his 11-year-old next door neighbour.

THE college student charged with the unlawful killing of County Cork schoolboy Robert Holohan was yesterday remanded in custody for a seventh time after appearing at Midleton District Court.

AGAINST the grief-laden backdrop of Midleton schoolboy Robert Holohan’s violent death, it is appropriate to reflect on the extraordinary response of the community in this tragic case.

METHODICAL, professional, sensitive. The tone of the garda response was set from day one.