Two Limerick men who pleaded guilty to a "depraved and barbaric" assault during which a 53-year-old man was nailed to a kitchen floor have both been jailed for three years.

A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy from Co Derry has drowned at his family’s holiday villa on Portugal’s Algarve coast.

The death of a six-year-old twin boy on a family holiday in Portugal sent shockwaves through his local community today.