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A round-up of today's other stories in brief...

A round-up of today's other stories in brief...

Landowner gets right of way injunction

A Co Wicklow landowner who claims that no public right of way exists over his property has secured a High Court order preventing a march planned by a walking club for today.

Yesterday the court heard Joseph Walker, Annacrivey, Enniskerry, Co Wicklow, has been subject to intimidation and his property damaged by individuals he claims wrongly believe there is a right of way across his land. He was granted a temporary injunction preventing named members of the Enniskerry Walkers' Association and any others from entering his land without lawful authority.

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Another arrest in O'Hagan case

Another man has been arrested by the PSNI in connection with the 2001 Loyalist Volunteer Force murder of Sunday World journalist Martin O'Hagan.

The 40-year-old man was arrested by PSNI detectives and was being questioned last night in Antrim station.

Inquest told of double drowning

A fisherman who bought a defective car for just €150 lost control of it later that night and drove it off a pier into the sea, killing himself and a colleague.

Latvian Yanis Teibe (36) was almost three times over the drink driving limit when the car plunged into the water at Rossaveal Harbour in Connemara last December.

A passenger, Lithuanian Andriejuas Chitrovas (39), also drowned. But a third fisherman, Vygantas Baveikis, from Lithuania, escaped when he got the car door open under the water, an inquest heard yesterday.

Garda appeal on pedestrian death

Gardaí investigating the death of a pedestrian in Terenure, Dublin, earlier this month are appealing to the public for assistance.

An 82-year-old woman was fatally injured when she was hit by a reversing car at 10.50am on Terenure Road East on September 8th.

80 from Congo to be settled here

Some 80 Congolese refugees who fled their country's civil war are to be flown to Ireland next year under a UN resettlement programme.The Department of Justice has confirmed the refugees, now living in camps in Tanzania, will arrive in Ireland early next year.