An Irishman has been killed in an explosion at a shopping centre in Perth, Australia.

A GARDA who had been following a car which crashed, killing two young people in Dundalk, Co Louth, has told an inquest that he had stopped the pursuit just before the collision and denied he had been waiting “ready to pounce” on the vehicle.

A teenager killed a man then turned the gun on himself today as dozens of people scrambled for cover at a school in a remote Australian Aboriginal community.

AUSTRALIAN cops were yesterday told to keep their hands off our boys in blue.

THE money is good, the sunshine is free and if you’re a garda looking for a change of uniform as well as scenery then the police service of Western Australia regard you as a fair cop.