A man who destroyed an ex-girlfriend’s life by posting vile sexual messages on a website seven years after she ended their brief relationship, has avoided jail.

Vile explicit messages, purporting to be from a woman who was a childcare worker, were posted online by a man she had gone out with briefly seven years before.

A fire has broken out at a derelict building in Sligo, where it is feared there may be high levels of asbestos.

The body of a 16-year-old teenage boy was discovered this morning in the back garden of a house in Sligo.