Smoke continues to billow from smouldering bogs and forests across the midlands this afternoon.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has announced that the new stretch of the N6 between Kinnegad and Tyrrelspass in Co Westmeath will open earlier than expected.

DODGY dealers may be offering unsafe pork, stolen from a crashed lorry, to unsuspecting customers.

A DYING man was found with a knife plunged in his chest after a garda pursuit in Limerick at the weekend.