Sir For more than 43 years the Stardust families sought truth and justice. For much of that time it must have seemed that the families with grief and love in their hearts walked alone, except for the few who stood by them.
Three weeks into its launch, the national campaign by Waterford based group 'Gaeil ar son Gaza', to get people across Ireland to light candles on Wednesday May 1 for the children of Gaza is gathering pace, with support being expressed by well-known figures in public life.
Chupi Sweetman’s husband Brian Durney knew almost immediately after they first met that this was the woman he would marry. He waited two weeks to tell her this, three to say “I love you”, she laughs now, explaining that he didn’t want to scare her. They were 16, “babies”, and had met at a confirmation ceremony where they were set up by his cousin. This week, Sweetman turns 40, appropriately for one whose eponymous jewellery business revolves around love on Valentine’s Day.
After a series of trunk shows in Cork, where crowd numbers were ‘bedlam’, Chupi is opening a pop up in Brown Thomas. Mary Cate Smith meets the jewellery designer taking on the world