A roundup of today's other stories in brief...
Four men held after armed break-in
Gardaí in Cork are looking into an incident in which four men broke into a flat in the city armed with a shotgun.
The alarm was raised after residents in Mary Street reported hearing breaking glass and a shot being fired shortly after 5am yesterday. The person living in the flat was not injured in the incident.
One man was arrested and a shotgun was recovered. Three other men who fled were later arrested and other weapons recovered in follow-up searches.
The men, who are in their 20s and 30s, are held at Anglesea Street and Bridewell Garda stations and can be held for up to 48 hours.
Four stabbed in their bedrooms
A 36-year-old man appeared in court over the weekend charged in connection with the stabbing of four people while they slept in Ballybrack, Co Dublin. The victims, one of whom is critical, were attacked in their bedrooms.
The man has been remanded to appear in court on Friday over the attack which took place last Friday morning.
Prof Browning's Holocaust lecture
US author and international authority on Nazi persecution of the Jews, Prof Christopher Browning from the University of North Carolina, will deliver the annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture at Trinity College Dublin tonight.
The lecture takes place in the Burke Theatre of the Arts Building at 7.30pm.
Investigation into furniture store fire
An investigation is under way into a fire at a furniture store in Skibbereen, Co Cork, which led to the evacuation of 10 residents in a building to the rear.
The alarm was raised shortly after 1.30pm yesterday when a blaze broke out at the store on Main Street along with two adjoining premises.
It is thought the fire may have been linked to an electrical fault.
Old Head walk raises €3,000
Wet and windy weather conditions did not deter 25 protesters from Co Cork from taking part in a sponsored walk in the Galtee Mountains yesterday to raise funds for a court challenge over public access to the Old Head of Kinsale.
There is no public right of access to the Old Head, which was converted into a private golf course more than 10 years ago. The dispute over access for walkers and nature-lovers has been ongoing since 1997.
Diarmuid Ó Dálaigh, a member of the Free the Old Head campaign, has been granted leave to take High Court proceedings against Ashbourne Holdings Ltd to establish the existence of a right of way at the Old Head of Kinsale.
The issue has been to court on a number of occasions in relation to planning matters or under narrow legal boundaries but this time the right of way issue will itself be tested.
It is estimated that €3,000 was raised as a result of the walk. Campaigners maintain that local people had walked on the Old Head for generations. However, the owners of the golf course have always said that if access were permitted to the site, the course would become inoperable.