THE sun beat down and amid stifling humidity yesterday men, women and children filled buckets, bottles and saucepans with water from a communal tap.

UP to 70 householders in a harbour town have been told not to drink tap water because of “lead contamination”.

A 26-year-old man today became the fourth man remanded in custody charged over a gangland style murder in a pub.

Gardaí say two suspect devices found at a house in Dublin's south inner city early this morning were a hoax.