The world, and especially the countries around the Indian Ocean, yesterday remembered the tsunami and the utter devastation it wreaked across some of the poorest communities there 12 months ago.

The boyfriend of one of the Irish people killed in December's tsunami in southern Asia has been giving evidence to an inquest into her death today.

Dublin City Coroner's Court has begun hearing inquests into the deaths of three of the four Irish people killed by December's tsunami in southern Asia.

Dozens of Irish people remain unaccounted for in the aftermath of the earthquake disaster in South East Asia, Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern said tonight.