LAOIS woman Kathleen Culliton has been growing her hair since 1990. “It was shoulder length at that stage, and now I can sit on it”, she says. She was living in Saudi Arabia at the time.

Martin Kelly, Bellingham, Portlaoise/Castlecomer, Kilkenny and formerly of Warrenpoint, Co. Down passed away peacefully at Saint Vincent's Hospital, Dublin surrounded by his loving family, after a short illness on Sunday 26 January.