Los Angeles city bosses rode roughshod over state and local laws by allowing a home where Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe briefly lived to be bulldozed to make way for a condominium, a court action claims.

Opposition parties are expected to turn up the heat on the Taoiseach in the Dáil today over his pre-election promise to retain the A&E department at Roscommon County Hospital.

Two Fine Gael councillors from Roscommon have resigned from the party over the controversial closure of the A&E department at Roscommon County Hospital.

Members of a Danish biker gang were being hunted today after a former member was blown up in his car as he drove to a hospital appointment in a Copenhagen suburb.