A round-up of today's other stories in brief
Two deaths in Louth being treated by gardaí as accidental
Gardaí in Louth are treating as accidental two deaths in separate incidents in Drogheda and Dundalk.
The body of a 57-year-woman who had not been seen for a week was found yesterday following a fire in her home in the Termon Abbey estate, Drogheda. Gardaí found the woman in a room where it appears a fire had broken out.
In Dundalk gardaí described as a “tragic accident” the death of a 31-year-old Lithuanian man. He was working on a car when it appears the vehicle fell on him. The incident happened off Avenue Road on Monday afternoon.
Gardaí remanded on assault charges
Two gardaí have been returned for trial on assault charges arising from an incident in Co Meath in 2009.
Alan Coates and Michael Jordan of Ashbourne Garda station are accused of assaulting William Shiels, causing him harm at Tara Lawns, Ashbourne, on April 26th or 27th, 2009.
Both gardaí appeared before Navan District Court yesterday and were remanded by Judge Patrick Clyne on their own bail of €100 each to Trim Circuit Court on May 10th.
Limerick festival generates 20m
The country’s first major festival of the summer generated an estimated €20 million in visitor spend for the Limerick region.
Organisers of Riverfest 2011 are confident the four-day festival will become an international event after the huge success of this year’s Shannonside event.
Thousands of visitors flocked to the 2011 European City of Sport over the May bank holiday weekend for the event, which also saw more than 6,600 athletes join in the Great Limerick Run.
Lifebuoy tangled in stag's antlers
Walkers in Glendalough in Co Wicklow have spotted a stag with a bright red lifebuoy tangled in its antlers, writes CONOR CULLEN.
The stag was seen close to the Poulanass Waterfall on Sunday afternoon near a busy path at the Upper Lake.
The lifebuoy is over one of the stag’s antlers, but, more worryingly, its line is firmly wrapped around his antlers, head and neck. Wicklow Mountains National Park workers said the sighting was the latest in a series in recent weeks. They said the only way to remove the buoy would be to track the stag and tranquillise it.