Skeletal remains have been unearthed by a digger driver excavating near the River Finn in Co Donegal.

DONEGAL County Council engineers were last night keeping a round the clock watch on a bridge over concerns that it could be damaged by a large ice flow.

THE north and west bore the brunt of gales yesterday, with flash floods, trees brought down and forecasters warning of hurricane- force gusts battering inland.

Rescuers in Co Donegal are due to resume their search today for a young man who fell into the River Finn in Ballybofey last night.