The coffin bearing the remains of Limerick man, Jason Corbett, who died violently at his home in North Carolina, is due to arrive at Dublin airport at 9.30am this morning.

The Taoiseach and Tánaiste are in Washington today for high-level meetings with business and political leaders.

Gardaí in Clare have arrested a man following an air rage incident in which passengers held a man on the floor of a plane until the flight landed.

Nato was bidding to break its damaging deadlock over Iraq this afternoon – by isolating the French.