A father of four who died following an assault in Mitchelstown, Co Cork was remembered as a "one in a million family man" who loved a good chat and had a hearty laugh, his requiem mass in his native Ballindangan heard today.

Labour’s Willie Penrose has taken the final seat after six days of counting in the Longford-Westmeath constituency.

The army bomb squad has made safe a device which was found in Dublin this afternoon.

The accused in a triple attempted murder trial told gardaí he was trying to broker a peace deal between two Traveller families feuding over a damaged caravan, a court has heard.

AN 18-year-old hurler who collapsed and died during a junior hurling final in Cork last Friday will be buried today.