The Criminal Assets Bureau has secured orders for the seizure of approximately €146,000 from a Co Sligo family which the bureau says are the proceeds of crime.

HUNDREDS of mourners yesterday attended the funeral of a retired couple who died when their car collided with a lorry on the Knocklong/Mitchelstown road.

Hundreds of surfers formed a circle in the waves off Australia’s eastern coast and cast sprigs of wild flowers into the Pacific Ocean today to honour “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin.

A private funeral for “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin will be held in the next two days, his manager, John Stainton, said today.

The Crocodile Hunter became the hunted today when Steve Irwin, the Australian TV wildlife host went into hiding after sparking a frenzy by hand-feeding a crocodile while holding his month-old son.