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Girl (5) killed after being struck by car
A five-year-old girl was killed when she was hit by a car in Co Wicklow on Sunday evening. Named locally as Aoife Kennedy, she died when she was knocked down on Main Street, Carnew, as she was crossing the road.
The collision happened shortly before 5pm.
Gardaí and an ambulance were called to the scene and the girl, who lived a mile outside Carnew in the Ballyellis area, was taken to Wexford General Hospital. It is understood that she died before arriving there. The driver of the car, also a local, was not injured.
Gardaí from Gorey have appealed for witnesses.
Two arrested after drugs seizure
A man and a woman were arrested in Co Tipperary last night following the seizure of up to €50,000 worth of ecstasy tablets. Gardaí at Roscrea seized a large quantity of cash and 5,000 ecstasy tablets in the operation when they stopped and searched a car travelling on the main Limerick Road in Roscrea.
The man and woman are in their 40s and are being held at Roscrea Garda station under Section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act, 1996.
They can be held for seven days.
Sum of money taken in NI raid
Masked men ordered a woman to take cash from a shop in Belfast yesterday while her husband and daughter were held captive. The gang, who took over the family's home in the west of Belfast, escaped with a sports bag full of money.
Three men went into the house at St Agnes, Andersonstown, just after 7am and held the teenage girl and her father, police said. They forced the woman to go to her workplace on the Boucher Road industrial estate and take a sum of money.
She was then instructed to drop it at Colin Glen Forest, near Pembrook Loop in Poleglass, west Belfast.
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Prayer service for missing woman
A prayer service was held last night for a Dublin grandmother who disappeared two months ago while on a pilgrimage in Medjugorje. No trace has been found of Winifred Brady, from Kilbarrack, since she disappeared from her hotel in the Bosnian town on September 6th.
Her family recently launched a fundraising drive to raise the €50,000 needed to send a private detective to Medjugorje in an attempt to solve her disappearance.
Last night's special service was held in Limavady, Co Derry, where two of her nieces live. Other members of her family travelled from Dublin for the event.
Catherine McGinnis, a niece of Mrs Brady's, said they were desperate for information on her whereabouts.
Mrs Brady (59) is one of a number of pilgrims who have gone missing in recent years while visiting Medjugorje. On the day she went missing, she had been unable to join other pilgrims on a trek to a mountain-top church because she was feeling unwell.
US author to give talks at TCD
Vatican correspondent for the US magazine, the National Catholic Reporter, John Allen, will give two talks at Trinity College this week. Tomorrow he will speak on "Benedict XVI: Pope for a New Century" at 7.30pm in the MacNeil Theatre, Hamilton Building, and on Thursday he will talk about "Opus Dei: Beyond the Myths, Behind the Curtain" at 7.30pm in the Burke Theatre, the Arts Building.
Allen has written the books Pope Benedict XVI: A Biography of Joseph Ratzinger; The Rise of Benedict XVI; All the Pope's Men: The Inside Story of how the Vatican Really Thinks, and Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church.