Hundreds of families remained without power overnight after the fierce Atlantic storm, which crashed into the country blacking out homes, grounding flights, halting ferry crossings and delaying countless rail and road commuters.

Met Éireann has issued three new weather warnings this morning.

A graphic design graduate has described her “emot-ional agony” after she was punched, kicked, and choked by her then boyfriend who told her he was going to kill her.

A man has been arrested in Newry, Co. Down, in relation to dissident republican activity.

The body of a man has been recovered from the sea close to Derrybeg in Co Donegal.

A leading priest has told his parishioners not to pay the €100 household tax.

THE HSE is due next month to complete a review into how a caretaker on the sex offenders register remained working at a Donegal school and was able to rape and sexually assault four boys — even though he had already been convicted of abuse at the school.

Former Donegal GAA captain Kevin Cassidy appeared in court yesterday with his brother charged with an affray.

All-Star wing back Kevin Cassidy has been dropped from the Donegal senior football panel, following suggestions that Jim McGuinness was unhappy with the defender's participation in a newly-published book.

ALL STAR wing-back Kevin Cassidy has parted company with the Donegal senior panel following a meeting with manager Jim McGuinness yesterday.

A YOUNG woman hit a man in the head with a hurley so hard that he developed a clot and was left fighting for his life.

YOUTH group Foróige has contacted gardaí after it confirmed serial child rapist Michael Ferry worked with it as a volunteer during the 1980s.

Sinn Féin TD for Donegal South West Pearse Doherty has said with hindsight, he was exposed to what could be deemed as inappropriate behaviour by convicted paedophile Michael Ferry.

The Garda commissioner has told the Justice Minister that Gardaí in Donegal expressed concern about the continued employment of child abuser Michael Ferry at a school in 2002.

A 47-year-old woman has been rescued from a housefire in the Derrybeg area of Newry.

Air accident investigators today hit out at a private flight school, branding its supervision of instructors unsatisfactory, after two men were killed in a training flight.

The Air Accident Investigation unit has released its report on a fatal helicopter crash in Co. Kildare last year.

AN elderly couple had to be rescued by firefighters from their home after thunderstorms and torrential downpours left them cut off by flood waters.

These are comments from some pharmacists attending yesterday’s emergency meeting in Dublin.

A clean-up operation is getting underway in Donegal this morning following flash floods yesterday afternoon that led to a number of people being rescued from their homes by the emergency services.

ALMOST a day elapsed before the emergency services were alerted to the disappearance of a helicopter, found crashed, with two crew dead on board.

Investigators probing a helicopter crash that killed a flying instructor and his student revealed today they are concerned the aircraft was missing overnight before anyone noticed.

Police in the North have arrested a man following the fatal stabbing of another man in Newry last night.

An 18-year-old man has died after crashing his car into a bridge in Co Donegal last night.

Electricity supply in the northwest is expected to be reconnected today after a night without power.

A telecommunications company in Co Donegal has announced plans to lay off half the workers at its plant in Gweedore following the loss of a major order.

CROWDS at Ennis’s St Patrick’s Day Parade yesterday witnessed a rare public outing from Eamon de Valera’s 1947 Plymouth Dodge.

A 15-year-old driver died when he crashed a car bought only hours before by his 14-year-old cousin, an inquest heard tonight.

A two-year-old boy has been killed in a road accident in Co Galway.

Further job cuts have been announced for the west of Ireland.

A clothing company in Co Donegal has confirmed plans to lay off 50 workers.