Just days before his accident, Liam O'Riordan was on a fundraising truck-run to help get Ireland's first community-funded air ambulance in the air.

The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has been urged to issue an immediate safety alert about the opening of empty oil drums, because a young apprentice was killed in a workplace explosion.

A volunteer emergency medical group says a powerful new top-of-the-range, powerful vehicle will help it save more lives in the community.

A FORMER senior manager with homeless charity Simon yesterday told a tribunal she was forced to quit her job because being she was black and female.