The Government has unveiled a €60m programme to help rejuvenate rural Ireland.

Meat giant Kepak hired a surveillance firm to "spy" at weekends on a worker who had logged a number of grievances against the firm.

A man has been charged with assaulting and falsely imprisoning 23-year-old Patryk Krupa, whose body was taken from the River Shannon near Athlone on Friday night.

An armed robbery attempt on a post office in Co Westmeath was foiled by gardaí today as part of an operation targeting criminal activity in the midlands.

THE death toll on Irish roads rose further when six people were killed in accidents in five counties on Saturday.