Flood response efforts continue across County Clare with local authority staff, Clare County Fire and Rescue, the Army and Gardaí providing 24-hour cover to the flooding crisis.

THREE separate job initiatives are to result in the creation of 453 jobs in Sligo, Letterkenny and Arklow.

93 jobs are to be lost in Co Wicklow as the Quinn Group announced it is to close the Veha radiator plant.

The jury in the trial of a teenager charged with murder has been told that if the accused is not guilty, he must be the unluckiest man in Ireland to have all the evidence stacked against him.

The trial has begun at the Central Criminal Court of an 18-year-old man, who is accused of murdering a 36-year-old mother-of-two in Kilkenny City two years ago.