Four young lifelong friends killed in a road accident, and their friend who is seriously injured in hospital, had been planning to spend the night together before the fatal accident in Kildare.

A college that the four Kildare crash victims had attended has said it is "devastated at the loss of four beautiful young girls."

A Kildare man who shot his neighbour in the stomach and who was also shot himself in the ensuing struggle has been convicted by a jury.

The jury has retired to consider its verdict in the case of a man accused of shooting his neighbour in the stomach and who was allegedly shot himself in the ensuing struggle.