A round-up of today's other news stories in brief
Two men held after drug haul in Clonmel
Gardaí from Clonmel have arrested two men following the seizure of 20kg of cannabis and some cocaine estimated at €160,000.
Yesterday's seizure followed a planned search of a house in Clonmel. The men, aged 48 and 17, were arrested under section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act and detained in Clonmel Garda station where they may be held for up to seven days. Gardaí said the operation was part of an ongoing operation in Clonmel.
Poor visibility caused air crash
A light aircraft crash in which two Belgian men died in Co Galway was due to the wing separating from the main structure in poor visibility, a report has concluded.
The accident happened on September 19th last year shortly after the single- engine DR250 aircraft took off from Galway airport. The men were on their way to Saint-Ghislan in Belgium. About five minutes after take-off the aircraft crashed in the Galway Cricket Grounds at Lydican, Oranmore.
The investigation concluded that a possible attempted recovery manoeuvre by the pilot, following loss of control due to disorientation from an intentional or inadvertent flight in bad visibility and cloudy conditions, sufficient to overload the wing structure, was most likely the cause of the wing failure.
The aircraft took off and very quickly reached the cloud and the tower controller at Galway lost sight of it.
School bus kills Armagh schoolgirl
A nine-year-old girl died yesterday after being hit by a school bus in Northern Ireland. She was walking on the High Street at Bessbrook, Co Armagh, when the accident happened at about 3.15pm. The road was closed and police are investigating.
The girl was a pupil at St Joseph's school in the village.
Family arrive to find sea victim
The uncle and father of the Polish man who was swept off rocks at a headland near Brandon Creek on Sunday have arrived in Dingle, Co Kerry, to search for him.
A ceremony is taking place later today near the spot where Adam Juniewicz (34), a married man with a five-year-old-son, was lost.
Mr Juniewicz, from Sopot near Gdansk, was walking on rocks a short distance from a group of friends in the area shortly before 2.30pm on Sunday when a wave swept him away.
He had worked for a local safety consultancy firm for over a year while his wife and son remained in Poland. A strong swimmer, Mr Juniewicz managed to return to the shore but was again swept out to sea.
A number of people have lost their lives while walking and fishing off rocks at Brandon Creek from where St Brendan is reputed to have sailed to America in the sixth century. Safety signs are being erected today as part of the a special religious ceremony being led by Msgr Pádraig Ó Fiannachta, the Irish scholar and parish priest of Dingle, at 6pm.
Mike O'Shea, managing director of Irish Rope Access, and the missing man's employer is taking part in the search. He said this had been "a very rough week" on everyone.