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

AS darkness last night enveloped the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Newcastle West, candles flickered in a symbolic embrace of two communities in Limerick and Cork devastated by grief.

Relatives of murdered Limerick mother of two, Sarah Hines, have said their lives "will never be the same" because of her murder and the murder of her two children.

DUTY of care to society is an integral part of the role of gardaí and in this context there is a heavy onus on them to know the whereabouts of people listed on the sex offenders’ register.