It’s quite a few miles from Saint Tropez and the Côte d’Azur but the tiny village of Quin in Co Clare is fast gaining a reputation as the celebrity holiday destination of 2014.

A Palestinian bus driver who rammed his bus into a crowd of Israelis in February, killing eight and injuring 21, was convicted of murder today.

Yasser Arafat has dismissed the attack on a bus stop that killed eight Israelis as a "road accident".

Eight Israelis have died after a bus driven by a Palestinian veered into a bus stop used by soldiers and civilians.