A CONVICTED rapist who fled to the US six years ago was due in court today after being extradited from the US.

A CARLOW man died in a hospital in Prague yesterday from injuries he received in a suspected mugging in the Czech capital over the weekend.

A MAJOR garda investigation was launched in Carlow yesterday after an early morning gun attack on a man in a housing estate in the town.

A DYING man was found with a knife plunged in his chest after a garda pursuit in Limerick at the weekend.

The motorcyclist who was killed in a crash yesterday morning in Co Laois has been named.