The Offaly GP, Bernadette Scully, has used her post-verdict statement to highlight the absence of services for people with disabilities and to urge those in danger of self harming to reach out for help.

Four teenagers were hospitalised, one with a serious brain injury, after their motor boat slammed into the pillar of a bridge on the River Shannon.

A 63-year-old man whose nose was broken by a closing electronic door at Dublin Airport was awarded €19,000 damages against Aer Lingus.

A convicted Clare sex offender has been found guilty by a jury of sexually abusing two of his daughters in a County Offaly town land and may now have a previous suspended sentence re-activated as a result.