The Department of Foreign Affairs has said it is working to fast-track the repatriation of the body of an Irish woman who was found dead on a beach in Spain last week.

INVESTIGATIONS are continuing into the death of an Irish woman whose body was found on a beach on the Spanish island of Majorca last week.

A chef who was convicted of stabbing his partner to death with a steak knife was found hanging in a locked cell in Arbour Hill prison by his shoelaces, an inquest heard tonight.