A heavy young man launched himself from the balcony of a crowded Kerry nightclub landing on a young nurse on the dance floor below, a court heard.

A Polish woman in her 20s died following an horrific crash, yards from a motorway toll plaza in Co Cork.

Torrential rain may have been a factor in the death of a 23-year-old woman, from a well-known north Cork business family, whose car was in collision with a truck on a main road on the outskirts of Cork City.