A Garda and former senior Kilkenny hurler who lost partial vision after he was run down by a getaway car in a robbery at a Glanbia plant was yesterday awarded almost €280,000 damages in the High Court.

A 35-year-old man appeared at Portlaoise District Court yesterday charged with false imprisonment of a girl.

Gardaí said “great bravery” by a 10-year-old boy saved his 11-year-old sister from being abducted by a man outside their home in rural Co Laois.

TWO workers at Limerick’s Dell computer plant were killed in a horrific road accident, which claimed four lives at the weekend.

Four people were killed and another person seriously injured in a two-car crash today.