A suspected terror chief and three young men were arrested yesterday in a massive security operation targeting dissident republicans. Specialist anti-terrorism squads and elite armed units, directed by Garda Intelligence, went to 20 addresses in counties Louth, Dublin and Wexford and arrested four suspects.

Gardaí are investigating what they describe as the sudden death of a man in Glenfarne in Co Leitrim.

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Spot flooding has been reported in parts of the west and north-west this afternoon.

THE music will sound again this month in a remote village dance hall made famous as the Ballroom of Romance by author William Trevor.

Gardaí in Leitrim are investigating a serious collision on the N16 Sligo to Enniskillen road.

DESPITE a highly publicised road safety campaign, there was a sad start to the new year for three families across the country as three young people lost their lives in road accidents in the first few hours of 2005.

Details have been announced of this year's Rally Ireland, to take place in the north west on Saturday and Sunday, October 15 and 16.

THE National Safety Council is disappointed its grim prediction that more people would be killed on the roads in 2004 than in 2003 has come true.

The three people who died in two separate road accidents early this morning have been named.

Three young men have died in two separate overnight road crashes, it emerged today.

GARDAÍ were last night investigating the discovery of the bodies of a couple in a car in a picturesque Co Leitrim wood.

Gardaí in Leitrim have said they are keeping an 'open mind' on the deaths of a man and woman whose bodies were found in the front seat of a car at Glenfarne, around seven miles east of Manorhamilton.

The bodies of a young couple were discovered in a wood in Co Leitrim today.