An eight-year-old girl, who had just made her First Holy Communion, has died in Co Waterford, after an accident involving a bouncy castle, it has emerged.

Gardaí are investigating a road crash in Co Tipperary which claimed the life of a young woman.

One person has been killed in a car crash in Co Tipperary today.

SEVEN remaining stores in the 4HOME Superstores business have transferred ownership to Dairygold Agri Business Limited, a subsidiary of Dairygold Co-op.

THE closure of a further three 4HOME-controlled stores with the loss of 40 jobs in north Cork and Limerick has been announced.

A 44-year-old man is dead and two other men injured following a three-vehicle collision in Co. Tipperary.

A woman in her 30s has been killed in a road crash in County Tipperary.

A man in his twenties is dead and seven others including three children are injured after a two-car crash in Co Tipperary.

GARDAÍ in Cahir are appealing for information on a road crash that claimed the life of a 20-year-old local man late on Wednesday night.

A man in his 20's is dead following a crash in Tipperary.

A man in his twenties has been seriously injured in a road accident in Kilkenny.

A man is in a critical condition in hospital following a crash on the N24 Waterford to Clonmel road.

TWENTY workers who make cheese products including Calvita at a factory in Co Cork are to be made redundant after the owners decided to shut the plant, it was announced last night.

Three people are in hospital with serious injuries following a road accident in County Tipperary.

ONE hundred and seventy full and part-time jobs are on the way for the South Tipperary town of Cahir.

The woman who was killed in a road accident in Co Tipperary last night has been named.

A YOUNG non-national woman was one of two people who died in separate road accidents yesterday.

A man in his 70s is dead following a road accident in Co Tipperary.

TEN men were being detained by gardaí last night after the discovery of a suspected terrorist training camp in Co Tipperary.

Plans for a controversial incinerator in Tipperary have been shelved.

SUSAN MAHER’S wish was that her four year-old son, Bobby, might join her husband, Michael, and their five other children for carols at their home this Christmas Eve.

Six people have been killed in road accidents in the last 24 hours.

Three people died in two fatal road accidents overnight.

SIX people died over the weekend, the joint second worst death toll for the August bank holiday since 1991.