Gardaí are investigating photographs posted online of two men, one dressed as a priest, engaged in sex acts on an altar of a rural Catholic church.

Plans by Irish Water to revitalise a drought-stricken village’s water supply have been described as “completely off the wall”, and dismissed as “throwing water into a hole”.

Two villages in north Cork are expected to have longstanding water supply problems resolved in the near future.

CONTROVERSIAL plans for Ireland’s first bio-diesel production plant have been approved despite the advice of a senior planner.