President Michael D Higgins was among the mourners at the funeral Mass for former Ceann Comhairle and 46-year veteran of the Dáil Seamus Pattison who was buried in his native Kilkenny this afternoon.

A woman on trial for allegedly trying to collect €10,000 worth of stolen cosmetics has walked free after a judge ruled the property wasn’t stolen as it had already been found by gardaí.