FERMANAGH is a lovely inland county, replete with lakes and countryside that are a joy to behold.

THESE DAYS the rabbits seen from our first floor windows hop about in a field of head-high buttercups. Every evening, about eight o’clock, a fox passes at the top of the field.

AT a deserted inlet at West Cork’s Owenahincha Beach yesterday afternoon, five-year-old Niamh Twomey laid a make-shift cross at the spot where the body of Jonathan Herlihy was found hours earlier.