Social media site Facebook was used to groom a 13-year-old girl before she was sexually assaulted at a derelict house by a man eight years older than her, a court heard.

A WOMAN tried to rob a Co Limerick post office yesterday after handing a note to the post mistress warning her that her young child had been abducted and would be released if €5,000 was handed over.

Gardaí in Co Louth are seeking the public's help in tracing a16-year-old girl who has been missing from her home in Dundalk since yesterday evening.