A street in Dublin was flooded last night after vandals had opened the three gates on the Grand Canal.

A drug addict was being held tonight over the murder of his pensioner father with a sword in a retirement home.

The body of an elderly man found dead in south Dublin earlier has been removed to the City Morgue shortly where a post mortem examination will be carried out in the morning.

A 22-year-old man has died after being shot in a Dublin pub, Gardaí said.