A FILIPINO woman died when her basement flat was submerged in up to 3m of water.

ALTHOUGH Isobel Butler knew the River Poddle ran underground near her home in Harold’s Cross, she never realised how close it was to her property.

THE driver of a vehicle which mounted a footpath, crushing a 24-year-old pedestrian, last night told an inquest he could not remember the crash.

A chronic depressive who drank alcohol as well taking medication has been jailed for 18 months by Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne for dangerous driving causing the death of a Galway woman.