The funeral of an Athlone couple shot dead in a terror attack on a Tunisian beach will take place this morning.

Eight people are in custody on suspicion of direct links to a deadly attack on a Tunisian beach resort, while police have released four others detained earlier in the investigation.

Eight people are in custody on suspicion of direct links to a deadly attack on a Tunisian beach resort, while police have released four others detained earlier in the investigation.

A total of 12 people have now been arrested as part of the investigation into the massacre at a beach resort in Tunisia that killed 38 people, including three Irish, officials said today.

The bodies of the three Irish holidaymakers killed in Tunisia could be flown home as soon as today.

Irish tourists in Tunisia have pleaded with the Government to get them home amid claims they were not fully informed about the impact of the attack on their holiday destination.

Despite its long tradition of religious moderation, Tunisia has long been a fertile recruiting ground for jihad, with a terror export industry stretching back to the mujahideen of Afghanistan, writes Simon Speakman Cordall

The remains of the Irish victims of the attack in Tunisia will be brought home within days after they were formally identified yesterday.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has expressed his “sadness and horror” at the murders of three Irish tourists who were killed during last week’s terrorist attack on a holiday resort in Tunisia.

Authorities in Tunisia are quizzing seven suspected associates of gunman Seifeddine Rezgui, the 23-year-old student who shot dead 38 people on the beach in the resort of Sousse on Friday.

The Irish Government has vowed to work with Britain to protect freedom and security in the wake of the Tunisia terror attacks.

New video footage shows hotel staff and locals in the Tunisia attack follow the gunman in an effort to stop him, with little regard for their own safety.

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has called for a global strategy on terrorism, warning: "No country is safe".

Irish travel agents are poised to halt all Tunisian holidays pending updated travel and security advice from the Department of Foreign affairs.

Government and opposition parties have reacted with “revulsion” to the murders of 37 holidaymakers, including a mother of two from Ireland, at a beach-side Tunisian resort.

The Department of Foreign Affairs had warned Irish tourists about the possibility of indiscriminate terrorist attacks in Tunisian cities, and on places visited by foreigners such as hotels and shopping centres.

A lone gunman has stormed a beach and hotel in a Tunisian resort and killed at least 37 people, including one Irish woman ,according to Tunisian officials.

At least 27 people have been killed in an attack on hotels on the Tunisian coast.

An Irish woman on holiday with her two sons in Sousse has described how she grabbed her children and ran for their lives when they heard gunfire erupting from one of the hotels.

Gunmen have killed at least seven people in an attack on two hotels in the town of Sousse on the Tunisian coast, the Interior Ministry said.