A teenage couple were killed when their car collided with a tanker.

SIGNS asking adults to refrain from smoking are likely to be erected in Cork County Council playgrounds, while the local authority ponders how it could police a bylaw actually banning all smoking at these facilities.

The Standards Commission is to investigate alleged breaches of the Ethics Act by Councillors Patrick O'Donoghue and Sheila Casey of Killarney Town Council.

A formal appeal against plans for an incinerator in Co Meath has been lodged with the Environmental Protection Agency, it emerged today.