Tremors from an earthquake on the North Wales shoreline were felt in counties in south-east Ireland and at seismic stations in Valentia off the south-west coast, Donegal and Galway.

SO, at long last, the rogue Gulf of Mexico oil-well has been capped.

THE first earthquake in the west of Ireland since records began occurred in north Clare earlier this week.

FOUR people died in weekend carnage on the roads, a fishermen drowned in a lough and an elderly man was killed in a house fire.

Gardaí have named the man who died in a car crash yesterday in Wicklow.