QUICK thinking by the parents of a woman targeted in a tiger kidnapping in Co Galway resulted in gardaí foiling the raiders, it emerged yesterday.

A man in his late sixties has been killed in a hit and run in Co Galway.

PREPARATIONS are being made for the return of the remains of murdered Swiss language student Manuela Riedo to her home country.

Young people in Galway are being urged to travel in pairs following the murder of a 17-year-old female Swiss student in the city this week.

A fish shop owner who found a dead body in his freezer today spoke of his shock at the grim discovery.

Thirteen news organisations shared the honours in the journalism categories at the annual Pulitzer Prizes, which covered a wide variety of subjects in a year when no single event dominated the front pages. A live jazz recording won in the music category for the first time.

A terrified family were recovering today after they were held hostage overnight as part of a post office heist.

Gunmen ambushed an Associated Press driver today, riddling his car with bullets and killing him near his home in Baghdad.