A pre-inquest hearing into the Buncrana Pier tragedy, in which five members of the same family drowned, has heard that first responders could not open the doors of the car which had entered the water.

ACCORDING the Health Service Executive, the single biggest cause of death for children over one, is not disease but accidental death, and a change of routine is cited as a key cause for accidents to occur.

Two teenagers have been rescued from a river in Co Limerick.