Ryle Dwyer recalls the last time a hurricane hit with Debbie back in 1961, killing 15 people.

SCORES of customers sought reassurances from Mitchelstown Credit Union yesterday following revelations its financial stability is under threat and that it had been ordered to cease all business lending.

A group of secondary school students bought leg irons and an electric shock baton over the internet to expose the lack of regulation of the arms trade, it emerged tonight.