A round-up of today's other stories in brief...
Two killed on North's roads at weekend
Celebrity agent Colin Angus was killed in a car crash in Northern Ireland over the weekend. He was one of two motorists who died on Northern roads. Mr Angus (40) died when his car crashed off the Craigantlet Road as it cut through Cairn Wood Forest outside Newtownards. Police said no other vehicle was involved.
Another motorist died in a pile-up on the Dungannon Road in Portadown, Co Armagh. Three other people were injured in the crash involving a BMW, a Peugeot 406 and a tractor.
Funeral of crash victim today
The 19-year-old victim of a crash in Galway on Friday morning will be buried this morning. Pa Browne, from Dangan Court in the city, died following a three-car crash on Seán Mulvoy Road on Friday morning. Mr Browne will be laid to rest in Bushy Park Cemetery following Mass at St James's Church at noon.
Walkers rescued on Wicklow Way
Two hill walkers were rescued from Wicklow Way route after a heavy mist descended near Mullacor Mountain. They contacted gardaí by mobile phone and the Dublin and Wicklow Mountain Rescue Team and Glen of Imaal Red Cross Mountain Rescue Team went to the walkers' assistance.
A 4x4 vehicle was dispatched to return them to Glendalough.
Chernobyl charity founder honoured
THE former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan has awarded Irish charity founder Fiona Corcoran of the Greater Chernobyl Cause its highest civilian honour for her humanitarian work.
Fiona Corcoran flew to the Kazak capital of Astana to receive an Honorary Diploma and medal from President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Ms Corcoran was the first person from the West to be honoured in this way. She has been working with children in the Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Kiev for the last 13 years.
Bishop speaks on church and State
Irish culture "has always had a love-hate relationship with the church," Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has said. "Pluralism, a clearer understanding of appropriate relations between church and State and a greater secularism . . . have all contributed to a changed relationship between church and State," he said.
He was speaking at the launch in Dublin's Clonliffe College of Paul Cardinal Cullen: Profile of a Practical Nationalist, by Rev Dr Ciarán O'Carroll. Cardinal Cullen was Archbishop of Dublin from 1852 to 1878 and became Ireland's first cardinal. He was a dominant figure in later 19th-century Ireland.