Parts of Cork city and county have been left under several feet of water after flash floods overnight.

Parts of Cork city and county have been hit by serious flooding following overnight downpours.

A HIGH Court judge has directed that a property owner, who was previously jailed for being in contempt of court, be brought before the court for allegedly barricading himself into a property he had undertook not to interfere with.

AFTER spending a night in Mountjoy Prison a property owner who had refused to give the High Court an undertaking about obeying its orders changed his mind yesterday.

A woman is in a serious condition in hospital after a car crash in Co. Longford.

Two armed and masked men have escaped with an substantial sum of money following a raid on a bank in Co Longford today.

Two men arrested during a Garda investigation into the activities of dissident republicans were charged with membership of an illegal organisation at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Two people have died in overnight road accidents in Co Kilkenny and Co Westmeath.

A man has been arrested in relation to the fatal hit and run incident in Co Longford, which took place in the early hours of Saturday morning.