John McGahern photographed near his home in Co Leitrim in 1990. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times

Roy Foster tells seminar author’s work ‘clearly reflected’ father’s experience as a Volunteer

Neisha Wratten from Australia enters the former workhouse in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim, where her great-great-grandmother, Bridget Cannon, was an inmate during the Famine. Photograph: Brian Farrell

The Famine Attic Experience in Carrick-on-Shannon offers a glimpse of workhouse conditions in the 1840s

Eating disorder therapist Aisling Lafferty at Molloway House,  Sligo. Photograph: James Connolly / Picsell

Teenage girls are targeted by cross border eating disorder programme

Vicky Barnes, daughter of Susan Wallwork, at Sligo Coroner’s Court yesterday. She supported calls for the installation of carbon monoxide alarms and said people should think about what they throw onto fires. Photograph: James Connolly/PicSell

Father and children died after crisp wrapper blocked chimney

Family life: Paul Wynne with his wife, Ciara, and their one-month-old daughter, Ella. Photograph: Eric Luke

‘My lung transplant means I now have a baby and a life to look forward to ’

Ming with  his people: Independent TD Luke 'Ming' Flanagan campaigning at Hyde Park,   Roscommon. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times

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EU agriculture ministers will this evening discuss the deepening horse meat crisis, as part of the meeting on negotiations to…

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