The cost of electronically tagging prisoners has quadrupled in the past four years but still remains considerably cheaper than keeping convicted criminals in prison. 

A 62-year-old West Clare farmer yesterday appeared in court in connection with the alleged dumping of 17 decomposing carcasses at a 90m-high cliff last year.

The Gardaí and the Prison Service are investigating the death of an inmate at Cloverhill Prison in Dublin yesterday.

The Gardaí in Co Meath have put a haul of thousands of euro worth of stolen goods on display today in a bid to find its rightful owners.

DOZENS of victims of sexual abuse by clerics in a Wexford diocese are to give details of their ordeal to a state investigation within weeks.