Gardaí last night released a man they had been questioning in connection with the murder of prison officer David Black.

PARENTS of a seven-year-old school boy last night held a vigil at his bedside in Beaumont Hospital where he was being treated for serious head injuries after falling from the emergency exit door of a schoolbus.

A former Roscommon garda has received a three-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in an insurance fraud conspiracy arising out of a false traffic accident.