Surgeons are continuing their efforts to save some of the fingers of a five-year-old boy who had part of his hands blown off in a horror pipebomb attack outside his home in Wicklow.

Gardaí are appealing to the consciences of those who have information about the bomb blast which ripped apart a child’s hands on Wednesday morning.

A child’s hands were ripped apart yesterday after he picked up a pipebomb left outside the front door of his house.

A little boy who picked up an explosive device outside his house in Co Wicklow this morning has lost a number of his fingers as a result of the incident.

A five-year-old boy was injured today after picking up a pipe bomb outside a house in Co Wicklow.

A WOMAN has spoken of the honesty and decency of a child and a shop’s staff in returning a €20 note, lost accidentally.

FORMER Munster and Ireland rugby player Eddie Halvey has been given a seven-month suspended sentence and disqualified from driving for seven years after pleading guilty to careless driving and drink driving following a road crash which claimed the life of a 16-year-old boy in 2006.

Gardaí in Co Wicklow are investigating an incident in which a man allegedly slaughtered two puppies with a lump hammer before hanging the carcasses on a neighbour's door.

ROAD death statistics will take on a chilling and heart breaking reality today in a Co Limerick cemetery.

THE death toll on Irish roads climbed to 98 yesterday after a two-car accident left a woman dead and two people in hospital.

Gardaí in Co Clare are investigating an overnight gun attack on the home of a Fianna Fáil councillor in Kilrush.