Update - 9.22pm: The man arrested at a checkpoint in Co. Carlow on Friday will appear in court tomorrow morning.

Here's your morning news bulletin.

Gardaí mounted 23 checkpoints and searched 13 premises during the operation.

Seventeen people are appearing at a late sitting of Kilkenny District Court tonight charged with drugs offences.

An inspection report into a now-closed centre for people with disabilities has claimed the site was a huge fire risk. And the only person spoken to by inspectors who was fully aware of the workings of the warning system was a maintenance man.

A man who stripped off and streaked in front of 10,000 fans and the victorious Kilkenny hurling team has appeared in court.

The HSE has yet to decide whether to move 28 residents from a disability centre after health watchdog Hiqa secured a court order over serious fire safety concerns.

Three men will appear in court this morning after a Garda car was rammed during a high-speed chase in Carlow at the weekend.

Three men in their 20's will appear in court tomorrow charged in connection with a high-speed chase in Co Carlow last night.

A man is due in court in Kilkenny this morning charged in connection with the seizure of over half a million euro worth of cocaine.

A psychiatric assessment has been ordered on a 27-year-old man accused of murdering a shop manager last Thursday.

A man is due in court at lunchtime today in connection with the fatal stabbing of 26-year-old Mairead Moran in Kilkenny on Thursday.

A man is due in court today, charged over a post office robbery in Kilkenny just before Christmas.

Gardaí in Carlow have arrested a man in his early 20s, following a post office robbery in Carlow yesterday.

A father and daughter have been remanded in custody in relation to the discovery of €1.5m worth of cocaine and cannabis and €399,000 of cannabis, respectively, at two addresses in Co Kilkenny.

A man and a woman are due to appear before a special sitting of Kilkenny District Court later this morning charged in connection with a massive drugs haul in the county.

A 35-year-old man has appeared before Carlow District Court today, charged in connection with the robbery of an 86-year-old woman in Kilkenny earlier this week.

A man charged in relation to the death of his mother is to receive psychological and medical treatment in custody after he was brought before a court yesterday.

A 31-year-old man has appeared at Kilkenny District court this afternoon, charged with assault causing serious harm to his mother.

A 31 year old man has appeared at Kilkenny District court this afternoon, charged with assault causing serious harm to his mother.

A man in his 30s is due in court later charged in connection with the death of Siobhan Stapleton in Co. Kilkenny.

A man in his 30s is to appear before Kilkenny District Court this morning charged in connection with the murder of Siobhán Stapleton.

A man in his 30s has been charged in connection with the murder of Siobhan Stapleton in Kilkenny.

A 24-year-old man has appeared before Kilkenny District Court charged in connection with a tiger-kidnapping at the home of a former All-Ireland hurling star.

A man has been arrested in relation to the false imprisonment of a bank official (former Kilkenny hurler Adrian Ronan) and his family in Kilkenny almost two years ago.

FOLLOWING an international investigation involving gardaí, 11 people accused of forcing up to 150 young Nigerian girls into prostitution in Europe have gone on trial in the Netherlands.

A man in his 20s has appeared before a special sitting of Kilkenny District Court charged in connection with the murder of a woman and the deaths of her two children.

A man is to appear in court this evening charged in connection with the deaths of a Kilkenny woman and her two daughters on Christmas morning.

A man in his twenties is to appear at a special sitting of Kilkenny District Court this morning, charged in connection with the armed robbery of a post office in the city, and the fatal shooting of a Post Master.

A MAN who repeatedly slapped his 13-year-old daughter after she left her melting ice cream on his computer has been ordered to reappear in court in early June.

Nature’s Way pleaded guilty at Kilkenny District Court today to eight breaches of the Product Prices Regulations 2002 and was fined €6,000.

THE husband of Olympic swimmer, Michelle de Bruin, yesterday pleaded guilty to stealing chicken breasts, vitamins and cod liver oil tablets at his local Dunnes Stores supermarket.