SUPERQUINN last night blamed the cheap price of groceries in the North for its decision to make 400 staff redundant as part of cost-cutting measures which include the closure of its Dundalk store.

GARDAÍ are investigating a kidnapping and robbery in Dundalk, Co Louth, which took place at the weekend.

Four more people have died in three separate road accidents in the Republic overnight, bringing the death toll so far this year to 140.