The family of a two-year old boy who fell from a sixth-floor hotel balcony in Limerick on Saturday is keeping a vigil at his bedside at Temple Street Children's Hospital.

DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea, mourning the loss of a nephew in a drowning tragedy, said his family’s grief was being compounded by the delay in the release of the body by the Spanish authorities.

THE funeral of a 27-year-old Irish holiday-maker who died in Marbella just weeks before he was due to marry, will take place in Portmarnock later today.

A DUBLIN councillor and his girlfriend were killed in a Beijing road accident yesterday as they travelled to see the Great Wall of China.