Police have closed part of Greenisland in Co Antrim as they investigate the death of a man at a house in the Station Road area of the village.

Two men have been arrested following the discovery of a cannabis growhouse in Co Kildare.

GARDAÍ have not ruled out the possibility that a man who hit a young student on the head with a brick and then robbed her is the same person who brutally raped a 19-year-old woman as she walked home from a ball.