Have a wee look in the mirror, @time-magazine.bsky.social, and ask yourselves one question. Who was more deserving of Person of the Year - an adjudged sex offender, or a woman who incredibly bravely testified against her rapists? Your shame will live forever.

Crowds have turned out to the funeral of a woman in Carlow, following a social media appeal made by an undertaker.

Mary Regan died in the care of Hillview Nursing Home last Friday, and had no next of kin.

[1/2]

"I was telling them in Spain last month that when I was a little boy, every house in Ireland had a small bottle of olive oil, but it was never in the kitchen. You would heat a teaspoon of it soaked in cotton wool and stick it in your ears.”

John Banville