A woman who failed to pass her first-year exams in a nursing degree course at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology faces being jailed unless she complies with a court order preventing her from attending lectures.

A group of up to 100 members of the Irish Traveller's community are seeking High Court orders restraining Offaly Co Council from moving them from an unofficial halting site.

THE family of an Irish oil worker kidnapped in Ecuador were last night awaiting the formal identification of two bodies reported found in the region where he was taken.

THE family of an Irish oil worker kidnapped in Ecuador fear he is dead after authorities in the South American country said they were now searching for two bodies.