MEDICAL facilities costing approximately €25m remain almost entirely unused in Clonmel because the Department of Health can’t pay the €3.2m additional staffing costs to open the unit.

Gardaí in Co Tipperary have identified a woman found with memory loss in Urlingford almost six weeks ago following an appeal to the public yesterday.

A young man on trial for the attempted murder and attempted sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl denied he had anything to do with it when confronted by the girl's neighbour shortly after the incident.