There are no plans to change citizenship laws for children born in Ireland to foreign parents.

IRELAND’S latest victim of knife crime, 20-year-old James Joyce, was stabbed to death in front of his pregnant girlfriend after he tried to stop a knife-wielding attacker from stabbing another youth.

THE families and friends of Irish victims of the Air France disaster were yesterday coming to terms with their loss after the first wreckage from the plane was confirmed found in the Atlantic.

AISLING BUTLER’S father John said his daughter was “a truly wonderful, exciting girl. She never flunked an exam in her life – nailed every one of them – and took it all in her stride as well.”

A teenage boy and a 36-year-old man, being questioned about the shooting of a 16-year-old in north county Dublin last weekend, have been released from garda custody.