The heartbroken Grandmother has called for a registry for people with a violent history.

Domestic violence agencies face an uphill struggle when a man who bragged about sexual assault could still be elected president of the US, singer Hozier said yesterday.

Maria Dempsey will open a major conference on domestic violence next week — the sixth anniversary of her daughter’s horrific murder.

We could be looking at the next Jack Yeats, Francis Bacon, or Robert Ballagh if the quality of this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Compeition was anything to go by.

Relics of an ascendancy which once humoured and bestowed comfort to the Earls of Dunraven over several centuries are destined for new homes after a marathon two-day auction in the Adare Manor hotel.

A call has been issued for motorcycle riders to take part in a charity motorbike run to raise funds for Garda Brian Hanrahan, who was shot in New Orleans last month.

Police have released the name of a suspect in the shooting of garda Brian Hanrahan, who was gunned down and robbed while on holiday in New Orleans.

A man has been charged with shooting a pregnant woman and a man in front of two children.

A man has been arrested by Gardaí investigating a shooting in Newcastle West, Co Limerick yesterday in which two people were injured.

Gardaí are investigating after five people were taken to hospital after consuming what gardaí believe to have been tainted drugs at a house party.

A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a pensioner over three years ago.

The High Court has dismissed a challenge by a postmaster who claimed An Post unfairly terminated his contract four months after his son was kidnapped by armed tiger raiders.

Food for thought this St Patrick’s weekend

Former rugby star John Hayes has been appointed a brand ambassador by Irish Hereford Prime.

THE mother of two little girls who died at the hands of their mentally-ill father has expressed her deep gratitude to those who supported her in the year since their tragic deaths.

POET Paul Durcan will unveil a sculpture of the late Michael Hartnett during this year’s Eigse Michael Hartnett which opens in Newcastle West, Co Limerick today.

A man charged with murdering four people in Newcastle West on November 15 did not appear in court this afternoon as he was receiving treatment at the Central Mental Hospital.

ONE of her little brothers came forward with a Cork football jersey; another with a Harry Potter book — representing just some of the passions of Alicia Brough, a young woman who loved life.

A 31-year-old man has been charged with the murders of two women and two children in Newcastle West, Co Limerick.

A MAN aged 31 was last night charged with the murders of two women and two children at Newcastle West, Co Limerick, last Monday.

A man suspected of murdering his ex-lover, her two children and friend allegedly took a kitchen knife from his rented home before the attack, it emerged tonight.

Several cattle drowned and an elderly woman had to be airlifted to hospital today during freak floods that devastated homes and businesses.

An elderly woman had to be airlifted to safety today after homes and businesses were evacuated during freak floods.

A RECLUSE who was badly burnt in a gas stove accident suffered in agony for at least 18 hours because he didn’t want to bother his home help, an inquest heard yesterday.

STRIKING tributes were paid yesterday to solicitor and All-Ireland-winning Kerry footballer Garry MacMahon, who died last week after a brief illness.

A RESERVE member of the State of Iowa police force vowed yesterday to go on hunger strike if he was not allowed return to the US and rejoin his pregnant wife.

A MORE innovate anti-crime strategy, involving the recruitment of a garda reserve, was called for yesterday by Senator Michael Finucane of Fine Gael.

THE Shannon Rescue helicopter and sniffer dogs yesterday joined gardaí and 100 local people in a search for an 80-year-old widow missing from her home near Newcastle West, Co Limerick.