The man who died in St Stephen’s Green on Monday was buried yesterday in his home village in Kerry.

The authors of a new book on Beamish & Crawford describe how the brewery’s founding families played a huge role in Cork’s cultural life

A Limerick mother-of-one has begun stalking Take That star Gary Barlow, in a bid to get him to sing at her wedding in August.

It was the final playlist of the man know affectionately to his friends as The Dude.

The green light has been given for the restoration of the derelict former home of maths genius George Boole, the father of modern computer science.

Old school friends paid a poignant tribute to one of their own.

It’s one thing sharing your wedding day with hundreds of friends and family. But it’s quite another to share it with 25,000 golf nuts.

The son of Mahon Tribunal whistleblower Tom Gilmartin said his father never got the apology he was owed by the State.

Often when couples are getting married, curious onlookers will gather outside the church to get a glimpse of the happy pair and pass judgement on the dresses of the bride and bridesmaids.

A Church of Ireland lay minister and former school caretaker was yesterday jailed at Limerick District Court for possessing child pornography.

The wife of former Tánaiste Peter Barry was described at her funeral Mass yesterday as “a lady in the best sense of the word” who had a caring heart that reached out to all.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny was among the substantial crowd of mourners who last night attended the removal of Margaret Barry, wife of former tánaiste and minister for foreign affairs, Peter Barry.

The death has occurred of Margaret Barry, the wife of former tánaiste and minister for foreign affairs Peter Barry and the mother of Fine Gael Senator Deirdre Clune.

A stunning Victorian home is back on the market after 27 years care. Tommy Barker finds some divine inspiration in the Old Rectory.

It was Brideshead Revisited meets Gregorian chants — a send-off fit for a lord.

A reproduction of a stunning stained glass window which was destroyed in World War II has been unveiled for the first time.

PARISHIONERS at a Cork city church are usually used to seeking a heavenly lift whilst attending Mass, but last weekend they were confronted by a much more earthly means of raising the human form on the altar.

A BIG funeral for a giant of a man.

HUNDREDS of mourners from the world of politics, business and the GAA gathered at St Michael’s Church, Blackrock, Cork, yesterday for the funeral of former city manager Jack Higgins.

The first funerals for the men who died in Ireland’s worst road crash will be held later today.

THERE was a numbed silence across a Donegal peninsula yesterday evening as hearse after hearse made the journey from Letterkenny General Hospital to Fahan, Buncrana, Clonmany and Ballyliffen and families prepared for the first of eight funerals today.

The funeral for David Bird, the twin brother and first victim of gunman Derrick Bird, will take place in Cumbria today.

BERE ISLAND in West Cork was due to have a joyous celebration over the weekend with the first ever Presidential visit to the small community – but instead islanders were united in grief following the accidental death of a five-year-old girl.

TODAY the Whyte’s history and literature auction of memorabilia is being held in Dublin. Ian Whyte, the managing director of the auctioneering firm, mentioned that the material had been forgotten after the Civil War.

Descendants of people lost on the RMS Leinster, the worst disaster on the Irish Sea, were among a gathering today to mark the 90th anniversary of its sinking.

A Welsh-Irish church service is to mark the 90th anniversary of the biggest ever disaster on the Irish Sea.

THE tragic death of two Irish women in a hit-and-run accident in Rome last week had touched the entire country, mourners at a funeral mass for one of the victims heard yesterday.

A YOUNG girl whose brother died in a freak weekend accident just 18 months after her father drowned reduced mourners to tears yesterday when she spoke of her heartache and loss.

GRIEF hung heavy in the cold sea air as ferries bore mourners to the island.

A REBEL cleric who openly defied a bishop’s authority was buried yesterday.

A TOP architect yesterday defended a proposed new studio/office building that’s been designed for Limerick’s Georgian Pery Square.

THE lament of a lone piper wafted through a woodland setting as the matriarch of one of West Cork’s best-known aristocratic families was laid to rest.

FEARS have increased of a fresh round of violence in a long-running Traveller feud in the midlands after two men were shot in their car when they were ambushed on a public road.

JIM O’FARRELL knows the streets of his native Limerick better than most.

THE widow of a Royal Navy commando killed in the Gulf will not be made to pay back part of his salary and give up her home, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday.

A funeral was delayed today after vandals broke into a west Belfast church and smeared excrement over the altar.

OLIVER MURPHY was supposed to accompany his father, Martin, on last Sunday's ill-fated trip aboard the Pisces fishing boat that sank off the Wexford coast, but the vessel could only take nine passengers so he stayed ashore.