Residents of a Waterford City apartment block where a man was found dead in suspicious circumstances have expressed their shock at events.

The distraught mother of the 3-year-old boy tragically killed in a lift shaft broke down yesterday as she recalled the moments leading up to the tragedy.

Gardaí are investigating the fatal stabbing of a man in his late 30s in Dublin.

Gardai in Waterford are treating as suspicious the deaths of two people whose bodies were found four miles apart overnight.

Seven men have been arrested after gardai made a firearms seizure in Dundalk today.