The head of the Sisters of Charity has accepted that it was wrong to physically punish children for bed-wetting at a former industrial school in Kilkenny.

The head of the Sisters of Charity has refused to apologise for the physical and sexual abuse of boys at St Joseph's Industrial School in Kilkenny in the early 1970s.

Gardai in Co Mayo have named the elderly couple who died in a house fire last night as Donal and Una O'Neill, who were both in their 80s.