It is simply unbelievable that a famous football club like Sunderland would appoint the well-known fascist Paolo di Canio as its manager.

More than 1,000 people attended the funeral yesterday of the four members of the Flood family who were found dead in their burned out home in Clonroche, Co Wexford, last week.

Mourners sobbed today as they sang You'll Never Walk Alone for the father of the tragic Dunne family, who are to be buried hundreds of miles apart.