A pedestrian has been killed in Dublin.

Manchester based businessman Michael Wall today confirmed to the Mahon Tribunal that he gave Taoiseach Bertie Ahern a briefcase stuffed with about stg£28,000 cash in his Dublin constituency office in 1994.

The village immortalised in the film 'The Field' was thrown into chaos tonight as a flash flood washed away its century-old bridge.

A Galway restaurant was issued with a closure order last month due to breaches in health and safety, according to the Food Safety Authority today.