A round-up of some the day's other regional news.
Schoolboy (12) killed on road is buried
The youngest victim of the recent weekend of carnage on the roads was buried yesterday in Limerick. Hundreds of mourners packed the Church of the Holy Family in Southill for the funeral Mass of 12-year-old Johnathan Grace.
The fifth-class student died after he was hit by a car near his home at Daly's Cross on the main Limerick to Dublin Road last Sunday.
Sick baby is flown to English hospital
A seriously ill baby girl was yesterday flown from Cork University Hospital and brought to a hospital in Leicester to undergo a heart and lung treatment which allows the organs to rest and repair themselves.
The girl was brought to Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, which operates an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation unit.
Ahern urged to explain Corrib role
Mayo TD Dr Jerry Cowley (Ind) has called on the Taoiseach to explain his role in relation to planning approval for the Corrib gas terminal in north Mayo.
Dr Cowley was responding to this week's report published by the private organisation, the Centre for Public Inquiry, on the project.
The centre says that within a week of senior executives of Shell, Statoil and Marathon meeting the Taoiseach in 2003, they were given "unusual access" to the planning appeals board.
Illegal abattoir in flat closed down
The local council in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, has said it has been granted permission from a court to close down an illegal butchery operating from a flat in the Killymoon Road residential area of the town.
Locals had complained about a smell of "smoked pork" coming from the flat.
When it was raided by environmental officers and the PSNI, "a large quantity of roughly butchered pork from illegally slaughtered pigs was found in the residence".
More than 100lb of pork was removed from the site, which health and safety officers believe was an illegal abattoir.