A two-year-old boy who has sued over the circumstances of his birth at Midwestern Regional Maternity Hospital, Limerick, has settled his High Court action with an interim payout of €1.75m for the next two years.

GARDAÍ investigating the murder of a man whose body was dumped in a Co Cork slurry pit continued to question a woman in her 40s last night following the seizure of a 4x4.

THE families of six people, including two children and a grandmother, are preparing to bury their loved ones today following one of the blackest days for road traffic accidents in the history of the State.