Gardaí are providing round-the-clock security at a Traveller accommodation building site after claims of threats and intimidation directed at workers on the scheme.

A US tour bus careered through a guard-rail along an icy road and several hundred feet down a steep embankment, killing nine people and injuring more than 20 others, authorities said.

Armed gardaí arrested two teenagers on the grounds of a large primary school in Cork yesterday as shocked children looked on.

IN the inimitable phrase of former US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, there are ‘known knowns’ in regard to this house at 38 Hartland’s Avenue — and then there are ‘known unknowns.’

Thousands of worshippers have flocked to see the relics of one of Ireland’s best-loved saints.