The ISEQ index of Irish shares closed down 69.76 points at 1,949 today.

Venezuela wants the US ambassador to explain a breach of the country’s airspace by a US Navy plane.

The wreckage of plane carrying 46 people was found today scattered across mountains in western Venezuela. There were feared to be no survivors.

Gardaí in Dublin has discovered cocaine worth €15,000.

IN the end, it all became too much for Hyder, a Pakistan bocce coach at the Simmonscourt Arena in the RDS, Dublin.