A man in custody at Cork District Courthouse was seen putting cannabis into his mouth after his girlfriend passed him the drug as he was being escorted through a corridor.

A teenager was killed when she fell from a quad bike bought just a day earlier with her brothers’ confirmation and communion money, an inquest heard today.

President Mary McAleese today paid tribute to a young soldier killed in an off-road training accident at the Curragh, Co Kildare.