A round-up of today's other news stories in brief
Woman (96) dies in fire in Limerick
A woman died in a fire in Co Limerick at the weekend.
Mary Condon (96) was in an upstairs room in her home in Ashbrook, Kilfinane, Co Limerick, when the blaze broke out at around 7.30pm on Saturday.
Ms Condon, who had turned 96 on Friday, was in a bedroom where there was an open fire. Her son who is in his 40s was in the house at the time but was not injured in the blaze which was confined to the bedroom.
Gardaí in Bruff said the fire was accidental and described the incident as "tragic".
Mrs Condon was pronounced dead at the scene and brought to the Mid Western Regional Hospital in Limerick where a post mortem was carried out.
Food price rises imminent - FDII
Consumers have been warned of imminent price increases on a wide range of products including bread, breakfast cereals, soft drinks, canned, packaged and frozen foods, writes Seán MacConnell.
The warning came from Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII), a division of the business body Ibec. It said the increases were likely because of spiralling business costs. FDII director Paul Kelly said dramatic increases in the cost of energy, services, labour and ingredients had driven up food production costs.
Oldest bakery in Cork closes
The oldest bakery in Cork, and one of the few still making hand-made bread, has closed with the loss of 12 jobs.
Donnellys Bakery on Shandon Street, which has been supplying bread to Cork city and suburbs since 1920, has closed as a result of increasing costs and competition from larger bakeries producing greater volumes.
Caring for the sick 'not optional'
Caring for the sick "is not an option for the Christian, something that can be left to the professionals," the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has said, writes Patsy McGarry. "Jesus reminded us that we shall be judged at the end of time on how we visited the sick," he said yesterday at a Mass in Raheny to mark World Day of the Sick.
He also said that "perhaps one of the reasons why in our highly successful Ireland we have such a high level of fragility - and sadly of suicide - among young people" was that "success is the prime measure for establishing self esteem".
He spoke too of the "strange paradox today" where there were attempts to enable medical professionals be part of a legal process for taking the life of the terminally ill, "and at the same time there are those will go to any end to prolong life to an extent which seems to reject the fact that natural death is precisely that."
Sexual health campaign begins
A sexual health awareness campaign targeting 30,000 third-level students has been launched.
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) will promote safe sex by handing out information packs to students.
Launching SHAG week - Sexual Health Awareness and Guidance - the students' union also highlighted its national petition which calls on the Government to implement three key measures to promote sexual health and welfare.