A Ballincollig man accused of a gun attack in Limerick City told gardaí that firearm residue found on his hand came from a shotgun he used days previously when out late at night shooting at trees on a Co Cork farm, a court heard.

Emergency services have recovered a currach believed to belong to a missing fisherman off the coast of Co Galway.

TOURISTS may be embraced with open arms on the Aran Islands but when it comes to someone moving in permanently with them things can be a little different, a garda has claimed.

One of the oldest people in Ireland, Galway woman Brigid Derrane, has died at the age of 109.