A new regulatory framework for water safety at Irish swimming pools is to be implemented following the death of a three-year-old boy last year.

A father, whose three-year-old son drowned, was told the children using the hotel’s kids’ club should wait for armbands to be given out by staff, an inquest heard.

Five people had a lucky escape when a car in which they were partying became submerged on a beach in Co Cork.

ALTHOUGH there are few certainties in rallying, Niall Maguire should wrap up the Dunlop National Rally Championship at the Clonmel Arms Hotel/FESP-sponsored Tipperary Stonethrowers Rally on Sunday.