GARDAI in Clonmel were last night continuing to question a 28-year-old man following the discovery of a body in a house in the Co Tipperary town.

Gardaí tonight launched a murder investigation after the body of a woman was found in an unoccupied house.

A Longford teenager who beat a then 13-year-old girl "to pulp" and viciously raped her after she blacked out from his attempts to strangle her has been given nine years detention.