Four women who stole €4,777 worth of clothes from Penneys in Cork were so laden with bags that one of them asked for the help of a shop assistant to carry the stolen property out of the shop.

Gardaí have released the name of the man killed in the early hours of Saturday morning when his motorcycle crashed in Tallaght, south Dublin.

Brave Inca will bid for back-to-back victories in the Maplewood Developments Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown on Sunday.

Black activists today called for the firing of police officers who were shown on live television swinging night sticks and punching and kicking a suspect after a car chase in St Louis, USA.