Residents' records were discovered in a bin in a nursing home in Tipperary and 26 staff in another centre in Wexford were not garda vetted.

Fiann Ó Nualláin is enthusiastic about soft fruit planting and says canes and bushes should be set now.

The family of a man found dead with multiple injuries have been left with questions after the trial of the man accused of murdering him collapsed over doubts about evidence from a deputy State pathologist.

Last month was the coldest March on record in many parts of Ireland, except in the south, according to Met Éireann.

Joe Murphy