HUNDREDS of home owners and nursing home residents were unable to return to their houses in Co Kildare yesterday as flooding continued to blight parts of the country.

A full-scale search got underway at first light this morning for four people missing after their aircraft disappeared yesterday over Co Wicklow.

TWO books by well-known Irish naturalists have come to hand. One celebrates a river and the landscape through which it flows; the other focuses on a peninsula in Co Donegal.

THE Dáil will be asked later this month to invoke a rarely-used power to compel cement multinational CRH to appear before an Oireachtas Committee.