Six people have died after a sea plane crashed near Sydney, Australia.

29-year-old David Walsh - who was originally from Enniscorthy in County Wexford - sustained a fatal stab wound to his neck at a house in western Sydney last night.

New Zealand head coach Steve Hansen has described the decision to charge a man who worked for the All Blacks as a security consultant with public mischief as "unbelievable".

The Irish man who had been found with a broken arm after being missing for five days in Sydney, Australia, has undergone two bouts of brain surgery and is in a critical condition.

A MAN has been charged with the attempted murder of a young Cork man left in a coma after a brutal robbery and assault in Australia.