It's hard enough beef farming at the best of times. Try doing it in Co Roscommon with your fields flooded.
Three children who allegedly became ill and had to move out of their family home as a result of disturbance from a nearby wind farm have secured a total €225,000 as settlement of their High Court damages claims.
Pop star Duffy has said she retreated from the public eye after she was "raped, drugged and held captive" for several days.
They were the kind of witnesses once avoided by prosecutors, torn to shreds by defence attorneys and regarded with scepticism by jurors.
British politicians turned a blind eye to the sexual abuse of children and actively covered up allegations over decades, an independent inquiry into historical sex offences in Westminster found yesterday.
US President Donald Trump commended Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "working very hard on religious freedom" and refused to discuss a controversial new citizenship law that set off protests across the country, saying that the matter was "really up to India".
1. Heightened awareness. It has taught us a lesson in how we should never be complacent about what initially seems a simple health threat from a virus in faraway China.