Residents of Australia's cyclone-battered tropical north east have emerged from their homes to find roofs lying in their yards, boats flung on to rocks and roads blocked by tangles of fallen trees and power lines.

A 23-year-old Irish woman who drowned while scuba diving in Australia has been named as Elaine Morrow, from Ballintra in Co Donegal.

AN Irish tourist has drowned in a scuba accident in Australia while taking part in a diving course.

ONLY 39 people from Ireland have applied for the post of an island caretaker in the Great Barrier Reef, billed as the “best job in the world.”