Flood response efforts continue across County Clare with local authority staff, Clare County Fire and Rescue, the Army and Gardaí providing 24-hour cover to the flooding crisis.

Five men are due to appear in court today in connection with an attempted robbery on a Dublin bookmakers.

A former prison governor who indecently assaulted a young girl over a seven-year period has been jailed for three years by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.