The country’s foremost expert on suicide has warned that the family, friends, schoolmates, and wider Donegal community will be seriously impacted upon by the death of Erin Gallagher’s sister by suicide.

The school attended by Erin and Shannon Gallagher has appealed for time and space after Shannon's death less than two months after the suicide of her younger sister.

The teenage sister of schoolgirl Erin Gallagher, who died by suicide less than two months ago, has also died.

The majority shareholders of Irish housebuilding group, Abbey, have lodged a €145m takeover bid for the company.

Double killer John Gallagher has been released from the Central Mental Hospital in Dublin.