The Co Wicklow studios where the hit series Vikings, is shot has made a fresh bid for a €90m expansion that would create 1,500 movie-related jobs.

Two men in their 20s have died in separate road accidents in Co Wicklow and Co Meath this morning.

A 24-year-old man has died in a road accident in Co Meath in the early hours of this morning.

GARDAÍ believe a car found burnt out and abandoned near a quarry in Wexford was involved in a fatal hit and run in which a 20-year-old man died on Sunday.