Staff of the Midlands Park Hotel recently donned gardening gloves to help reduce an invasive plant species growing wild in Linear Park, Portlaoise.

Margaret Brown, from Sandycove in south Co Dublin, has been organising the festive feast since 1986

Professor Rose Anne Kenny, principal instigator of the study, told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show that their most recent survey found that there is an increased risk of people wishing for their own death due to loneliness in later life.