In the North, British army bomb experts are examining a suspicious package which was delivered to PSNI headquarters earlier today.

The latest winning lottery ticket was sold in Co Mayo.

A number of homes have been evacuated in east Belfast because of a security alert in the area.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to two car crashes in counties Carlow and Mayo, in which one man died and three young people remain criticaly ill.

A major search operation is underway at an unofficial halting site in Ballyhaunis in Co Mayo.