A mother of five found dead in a hotel room in Galway this week was a cancer survivor who embraced life and was passionate about her family, hillwalking, and set dancing, her funeral Mass was told yesterday.

Two women have died in separate road accidents in Cork and Dublin.

A five-year-old girl from Co Cork who battled cancer for two years before passing away last week has been laid to rest.

Tributes poured in last night for little Cork girl who lost her brave battle against a rare cancer.

NOBODY deserves to die in the way murdered taxi driver Michael Healy did, but this is not the time for anger, mourners were told at his funeral Mass.