Detectives are today hunting a gang who held-up a small-town bank branch in white boiler suits wielding a lump hammer and gun.

YESTERDAY’S heist of €7.2 million is the largest armed robbery in the history of the state.

The Equality Tribunal has awarded €16,000 in compensation to a woman who was discriminated against by East Coast Area Health Board.

A man who operated a children’s fun park was today sentenced to six months in jail for downloading and viewing child porn.