A beauty salon worker tonight described a 'Wizard of Oz' moment when storm force winds ripped the roof off an apartment block and blew it past her window.

A 31-year-old man charged in connection with a fatal assault on a woman outside the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin city-centre last month has been remanded on continuing bail pending directions from the DPP.

A 31-year-old man appeared in court today charged in connection with a fatal assault on a woman outside the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin city-centre last week.

Motorists are being warned of very heavy traffic on all routes to the Oxegen festival in Punchestown.

Traffic chaos is forecast in the Co Kildare region today as 70,000 people descend for the two-day Oxegen music festival.