A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Teenager killed in car collision on M1
A 15-year old male passenger was killed and another seriously injured yesterday in a car collision on the M1 motorway north of Swords, Co Dublin.
In Ballybofey, Co Donegal, a woman pedestrian in her 70s died yesterday after a collision with a car at Cashelnavean at 6.40pm. The road was closed for several hours last night to aid a Garda inquiry.
The youth involved in yesterday's M1 motorway crash died when the car left the road after the collision and hit an embankment on at about 4.15pm. His name has not yet been released.
The driver of the car was also being treated for serious injuries at Beaumont Hospital last night.
A spokesman for the Garda press office said the occupants of the second car, a man and a woman, were removed to Beaumont Hospital but their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
No applicant for Belmullet job
Not a single application was received for the position of radiographer in Belmullet hospital, Erris, Co Mayo, despite the job being advertised nationally three times over the past 12 months, writes Teresa O'Malley.
A radiographer based in Castlebar is now serving Belmullet hospital two days a week, and works two other days weekly at the hospital in Ballina.
A spokesperson for the HSE western region confirmed this new arrangement yesterday, explaining that "no radiographer appeared to be interested in living in Belmullet, however, patients needing X-rays in the area are now served by a radiographer travelling to the new facility two days a week".
Algal bloom outbreak at lake
A Co Clare lake popular with tourists has been closed due to an algal bloom, writes Gordon Deegan.
Clare County Council has erected signs at Lake Inchiquinn on the fringes of the Burren, in north Clare, warning people not to bathe in the lake after a dog died drinking water from the lake. Another dog, which had also been in the lake, fell seriously ill but recovered soon after. The dogs were owned by English tourists who were visiting Clare at the weekend.
Staff stop spread of bog fires
The bog fires which raged through the midlands were brought under control by Bord na Móna employees yesterday."We are well on top of it now, and there is very little smoke visible. None of the milled peat piles are now on fire and we are just dealing with some smoke in grass along the perimeter of bogs," said Kevin Gavin of Bord na Móna.
Conference on minority languages
An international, trilingual conference which takes place at NUI Galway this week will call on Unesco and the United Nations to give greater protection to minority languages around the world, writes Michelle McDonagh in Galway.
Organised by Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge and the Irish Centre for Human Rights and sponsored by the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, the conference takes place in the Millennium Arts Building from today to Saturday.