WOW! talk about a long haul, and a long, aisle-like hall, all rolled into one incredible, architectural Gothic revival package, with the most unassuming of names.

A large-scale outdoor theatre production staged in a fort by award-winning Corcadorca Theatre Company will be among the highlights of Cork City’s 1916 centenary commemorations.

The family of April Jones said a final farewell today as the Welsh town that shared their grief came to a standstill.

The Welsh hometown of April Jones was decorated with pink today as the community prepared to say goodbye to the murdered schoolgirl.

A funeral for murdered Welsh schoolgirl April Jones will finally take place this week just days before the first anniversary of her abduction.

The devastated parents of murdered April Jones are finally able to plan a funeral for their daughter – almost 12 months after the schoolgirl was murdered.

Hundreds of people turned out to pay their respects as an emotional service took place for missing five-year-old April Jones.

Superintendent Ian John has insisted that police still hope to find missing five-year-old April Jones alive.

Hundreds of people turned out to pay their respects today as an emotional service took place for missing five-year-old April Jones.

Former lifeguard Mark Bridger was charged today with the abduction and murder of April Jones – but the five-year-old Welsh schoolgirl remains missing despite an intensive, ongoing search.

Mourners at the memorial Mass for murdered Irish woman Jill Meagher were last night told the hopes and dreams she and her husband Tom had for their life in Australia were, “cut short by a despicable act one Friday night that has left us all numb”.

Family and friends of murdered Irish woman Jill Meagher have said an emotional goodbye at her funeral in Melbourne.

The family of murdered Irishwoman Jill Meagher have invited the public to a memorial Mass at St Peter’s Church in Drogheda.

Calling lovers of good food, and old buildings — a city restaurant, which has traded as Casanova, is looking for a new tenant on flexible terms.

A TEENAGE girl whose boyfriend is the prime suspect in her mother’s murder has paid an emotional farewell at her funeral.

Two women stabbed to death as they holidayed in Turkey are to be buried in the North today.

ONE bride wore a trouser suit, the other a vintage ivory gown. One married a royal, the other a rock star.

Supermodel Kate Moss married rockstar Jamie Hince today in a star-studded ceremony in a rural Cotswolds village.

RUNNERS are set to hit the streets of a town renowned for its car sales industry and clock up the mileage with two new marathons.

THE first funeral of one of the victims of last week’s quadruple stabbing murder in Limerick will take place today.

I’VE NEVER met Deborah Cavendish, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, yet she has long been a hero of mine. Debo, as she is known to her friends, now a feisty 90, was the youngest Mitford sister.

A woman was being questioned by gardaí today after a 60-year-old woman was stabbed outside a church.

An entire village in England, complete with cottages, a cricket club, a blacksmiths and a manor house has been sold, it was announced today.

Catherine Zeta-Jones joined mourners at the funeral of her namesake grandmother today.

MANY thanks to the literally tens of readers who contacted the Sports Desk inquiring after your correspondent’s health in the light of last week’s ‘Letter From Euro 2008’, in which told of how I had tweaked the hammer while running for a tram in Zurich.

The Catholic Primate and Archbishop of Armagh Dr Sean Brady is tonight preparing to be made a Cardinal in the Vatican.

Prayers were held at a candlelit vigil tonight for the five murdered prostitutes as well as the person responsible for their deaths.

The savage murder of pensioner Annie McCartan on her 75th birthday has left the quiet Northern Ireland harbour town she lived in suspended in disbelief, her funeral was told today.

THE Augustinian Order has apologised to the Catholic hierarchy for allowing three of its priests to concelebrate the Eucharist in a 1916 Rising anniversary Mass with a Church of Ireland minister.

Family and friends paid tribute today to their “beautiful angel”, television presenter Caron Keating.

Mourners today paid their final respects at the funeral of television presenter Caron Keating.

A MAN who murdered a priest and is serving seven years for threatening to kill a social worker was back behind bars last night after being on the run for five days.

Gardai in west Cork investigating a suspected arson attack on an Anglican church in Castletownbere say it was an isolated incident - and not an attack on the local Protestant community.