A 76-year-old woman is suing the Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney for negligence after a fall on its well-known ballroom floor, in which "the feet went from under her".

Members of the Australian International Rules squad reportedly caused a number of early morning disturbances in their team hotel in Clare yesterday.

China’s biggest oil company apologised for an explosion that polluted a north-eastern river with benzene and prompted the government to cut off running water to 3.8 million people, while another blast in the country’s south-west raised fears today of a second toxic spill.