A round up of today's other home news in brief
Arrest over woman's canal death
A man has been arrested in relation to the death of a woman in Co Laois last November.
Yvonne O’Shea, a mother of four who was in her 30s, died after she went into the Grand Canal between Vicarstown and Athy on November 22nd. Gardaí went into the canal after Ms O’Shea.
They were unable to save her life.
A postmortem on Ms O’Shea’s body established that the cause of death was drowning.
At the time it was reported that the car in which Ms O’Shea had been travelling with her husband and their four children had broken down close to the canal shortly before she died.
The man was arrested at 7.20am yesterday at Portlaoise Garda station and can be held until tomorrow afternoon.
Crisis responses strengthened
Gardaí and civil defence units have strengthened their co-ordination in responding to emergencies.
The organisations yesterday signed a liaison agreement which outlines their roles in the event of an emergency, including available resources, facilities and equipment.
The agreement also sets up designated call-out procedures and communications channels between the organisations.
Delay to Dublin Bay infill plan
Dublin Port Company faces significant delays to its plans to infill 52 acres of Dublin Bay following a decision by An Bord Pleanála to re-open public consultation on the application.
The company made its application for permission to construct new deep-water berths at the 21-hectare northeastern part of Dublin Port, which is located in Dublin Bay, last August.
In addition to the proposed infill, there would be additional dredging or other works on a further 17 hectares of the bay.
Community housing urged
People with intellectual disabilities have a better quality of life if they are housed in the community instead of group housing schemes, a report from the National Disability Authority has found.
An assessment of quality- of-life indicators such as social inclusion, and physical and emotional wellbeing found that “dispersed housing” was the most preferable for people with intellectual disabilities.
Dublin writer wins EU literature prize
Dublin novelist Karen Gillece has been chosen as the Irish winner of this year’s European Prize for Literature.
The EU-funded prize is given to emerging authors from 11 or 12 different European countries each year. She was chosen from a shortlist of six writers on the basis of her four novels Seven Nights in Zaragoza, Longshore Drift, My Glass Heartand The Absent Wife.
She will receive her €5,000 prize in Brussels in September.