A coroner’s court has heard how hotels and nearby buildings were evacuated and guests rescued from bedrooms in the wake of an early-morning gas explosion at a Killarney town centre laundrette three years ago.

The widower of a 47-year-old woman, killed in a traffic accident on a dangerous stretch of road which wild deer are known to cross, has appealed to the authorities for action to tackle the problem.

A TODDLER was crushed to death when he was thrown from a six-tonne dumper truck being driven by his father.