Nearly 30% more suspected drink-drivers have been arrested in Cork city and county in the past three months compared to the same period last year.

Plans are being put in place to hold a national Garda Youth Achievement Awards ceremony.

Half of the drink-drivers in Kerry are under the age of 40, and most of those are under the age of 30, according to new figures revealed by the gardaí.

Kerry’s most senior garda has ordered an internal inquiry into possible corruption in Killarney after “something” was brought to his attention, he told a meeting of the county’s joint policing committee in Tralee.

Gardaí in Kerry have said a file is to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions after an allegation of rape in one of the region’s leading private hospitals, the Bon Secours Hospital, in Tralee, writes Anne Lucey.