Abbeyleix: Four still held

Gardai are continuing to question four men arrested after Friday's foiled bank robbery in Abbeyleix, in which a garda was accidentally shot dead.

Abbeyleix: Four still held

Gardai are continuing to question four men arrested after Friday's foiled bank robbery in Abbeyleix, in which a garda was accidentally shot dead.

The circumstances in which 40-year-old detective sergeant John Eiffe was killed by a colleague are still not clear.

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