The Brexit plight of intensive pig, poultry and mushroom farmers has been raised by Thomas Duffy from Virginia, Cavan, who was last week declared the 37th Macra na Feirme National President.

Sergeant Maurice McCabe made complaints about 16 individual incidents relating to failures by gardaí to investigate reported crimes, internal matters including harassment of officers, and allegations of misconduct by individual members of the force. Caroline O’Doherty and Cormac O’Keeffe report on Seán Guerin’s examination of the matters

A woman attacked by a man who went on to murder Sylvia Roche Kelly in Limerick in December 2007 has claimed the 33-year-old would still be alive if her own case had been handled properly by gardaí.

The abolition of the EU’s dairy quota restrictions in 2015 will represent both an opportunity and a challenge for Irish farmers, Ireland East MEP Mairead McGuinness said at yesterday’s Lakeland Dairies milk quality awards in Virginia, Co Cavan.

So did you know that Zorro was Irish?