MORNING BULLETIN: Mum and child stabbed 72 times in 2013; First double execution in US since 2000 takes place

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IRELAND: A mother and her daughter murdered in Kerry in 2013 were stabbed at least 72 times between them, an inquest into their deaths has heard.

IRELAND: A form of superbug which can be resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics has been detected at two adjacent beaches in Ireland.

IRELAND: Ireland’s oldest indoor food market has been given a makeover.

WORLD: Two inmates received lethal injections about three hours apart as Arkansas completed the first double execution in the US since 2000.

WORLD: A wildfire which has scorched 76 square miles near the Georgia-Florida state line could keep burning for the next six months, officials said.

BUSINESS: Credit unions have moved a step closer to adding mortgage lending to their suite of services.

SPORT: The scope for golfing improvements at the world-renowned Old Head links in Cork is in the realm of the subjective at this stage — but the drive to turn near perfection to peerless continues, nonetheless.

... SOME DISTRACTION

FEATURES: “Finance is the scary thing about being a grown-up and I just feel so ill-equipped to deal with it,” so says Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope screenwriter Stefanie Preissner and a recent survey suggests she is not alone.

VIRAL: Half a dozen basking sharks were spotted off the coast of East Cork, over the weekend.

SHOWBIZ: Christian Bale is hopeful that his latest film will lead to more awareness of the mass killing of Armenians during the final days of the Ottoman Empire.