A Lithuanian national who attempted to rape a Longford student on the shore of a Leitrim lake last year has been jailed for three years by the Central Criminal Court.

The jury in the Ir£151,000 alleged insurance fraud conspiracy trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been sent to a hotel overnight after failing to reach a verdict.

A consultant engineer has told a jury it would have taken up to seven hours to remove a Scania truck and its load from a ditch into which one allegedly fell after colliding with a Rover car.

Gardaí investigating the death of a young Albanian woman in Co Sligo are holding a second man for questioning.