UPDATE 10pm: Eanna Flannery has been located safe and well this evening.

Michael Lowry says he intends to contest new charges lodged against him in court in Thurles, Co. Tipperary today.

Two men in their early 20s are being held for questioning in Thurles, Co. Tipperary, after four disused buses were damaged in the town earlier.

LAST WEEK, hawthorn bushes covered in white flowers lined the bye-roads of West Cork, and the woods were bathed in deep purple with very few shafts of sunlight penetrating the thick canopy of the trees. Those beams that broke through spotlighted thick carpets of bluebells and mats of white ramsons on the forest floor.