Some 36 people are to be made redundant from Rye Valley foods in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, it emerged today.

A DETECTIVE garda sergeant has claimed that a chief superintendent was personally biased against him in the handling of his application for higher rank.

The organs of a 13-year-old boy who died after falling through a roof helped improve the lives of up to five other youngsters, an inquest heard today.