The husband and wife were on a short break in Cork last week and were travelling with their Féileacáin teddy bear, which was part of a memory box for their daughter, who was stillborn almost two years ago.

A number of HMV workers in Limerick staged a sit in overnight after the retailer's Irish operations went into receivership yesterday.

Voters in Meath, Dublin West and Dublin North will have a last chance to get acquainted with the new electronic voting system in the coming days.