A round-up of other stories from around the country.
Employers to be fined over cigarette butts
Employers in Dublin are being warned that they will be fined and prosecuted if they continue to allow smokers to drop cigarette butts outside their premises, writes Alison Healy.
Before the workplace smoking ban was introduced in March 2004, cigarette butts and their associated litter accounted for 60 per cent of litter in the State.
Bernadette Lillis, Dublin City Council's anti-litter officer, said: "People don't realise that putting a cigarette out on the street is littering, and when they are caught they will say 'I don't litter, I recycle, I do everything right, I have a compost bin in the garden,' but it's still a litter offence."
Dublin City Council has already started to clamp down on motorists who throw cigarette butts out of car windows.
Last year, the council issued 212 fines of €125 each.
Pedestrian killed in Cork named
Gardaí have named the victim of a road incident in Cork city last Wednesday as Thomas Crowley (70) Deerpark Mews, Cork city. The pedestrian was killed when he was struck by a car on Parnell Bridge shortly after 9am.
Sexual assault on woman in Donegal
Gardaí in Co Donegal are investigating a serious sexual assault on a young woman yesterday in West End, Bundoran, between 3.45am and 4.45am.
The woman was walking on the main Bundoran-Sligo Road at Magheracar, when she was accosted by a man who allegedly dragged her down a side road and sexually assaulted her.
Gardaí are appealing for information. In particular, they wish to speak to the driver of a black Honda Civic who was on the Bundoran-Sligo Road before the assault.
Gardaí can be contacted at 071-985 8530 or 071-985 8539.
