The Garda ombudsman is investigating a separate complaint made by the victim of a vicious assault which was highlighted in the Irish Examiner this week.

A Garda investigation has been launched into a failure to properly investigate an allegation by a Polish woman that she was raped and sexually assaulted while being held against her will in her assailant’s apartment.

TEARS flowed freely among mourners yesterday at the funeral mass of the young Kildare couple killed tragically in a house fire in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of the young couple who died in a house fire in the Curragh camp in Co Kildare on New Year's Day.