An elderly man has been killed after being hit by a car in Limerick city.

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

A terrifired driver who was assaulted by four men who hijacked his truck was forced to drive while one of his assailants kicked him in the side and another had his foot in the steering wheel, a court heard.

The body of a patient who disappeared from a psychiatric hospital in Omagh was found floating in the river in the centre of the Co Tyrone town today.