More news in brief
A 25-year-old woman was being questioned last night by PSNI detectives following the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old man in Irvinestown, Co Fermanagh late on Sunday night.
The man was named locally as Gary Elliott who died at Townhill Park in Irvinestown. He was discovered by police at about 11.30pm on Sunday.
The area around the house was cordoned off yesterday as forensic tests were carried out. People with information were urged to contact the police.
Allegation of bias in school system
There is "profound, embedded and institutionalised religious discrimination" throughout the education system, Paul Rowe, chief executive of the Educate Together organisation, said as a new school opened in Balbriggan, Co Dublin yesterday.
"This discrimination is the responsibility of the State, not of schools or religious bodies," he said. He also said there was "no evidence of institutional racism in the Irish education system as yet".
The Bracken Educate Together school was prepared in record time to provide places for local children who had no school to go to.
It has two junior infant classes and two other classes.
Mr Rowe said about 80 children attended yesterday, "the overwhelming majority of them from Irish ethnic minorities . . . nearly all with Irish birth certificates".
He said Educate Together was "outraged by the media description of this school", which he said operated on the same "first come, first served" enrolment policy of all Educate Together schools.
Attack blamed on loyalist feud
The DUP mayor of Carrickfergus David Hilditch has called on rival loyalist paramilitary factions to "get off the backs of the people" following a second violent incident in the Co Antrim town in a matter of days.
Shots were fired through the window of a house at Glenfield Walk in Carrickfergus about 12.30am yesterday. This followed a pipebomb attack in the town on Saturday night.
No one was injured in either incident. The attacks are linked to a feud between the "mainstream" UDA and a splinter faction in south-east Antrim which has split from the central UDA.
Sex assault in Dublin park
Gardaí are seeking witnesses to what was described as a "serious sexual assault" in Fairview Park in Dublin on Sunday night. The victim was attacked at about 9.30pm.
The scene of the attack was cordoned off yesterday for technical examinations.
Gardaí said anyone who may have been in the area at the time or anyone who had noticed anything suspicious, should contact Clontarf gardaí or the confidential telephone on 1 800 666 111.
Fire destroys Orange hall
Police are trying to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed an Orange hall in Strabane, Co Tyrone. The fire broke out on Sunday night at the Craig Memorial Hall in Patrick Street in the town. The Orange Order said there had never been problems with the local nationalist community.
Mozambique gets €208m in aid
The Government has announced €208 million in funding to combat HIV/Aids and other issues in Mozambique over the next four years. This level of aid means the southern African country will now become the biggest beneficiary of Irish Aid money. Minister of State for Overseas Development Michael Kitt is currently visiting Mozambique to see Irish Aid-funded projects.
About €71 million will be invested in the health sector.