A 21-year-old Wexford man died following an accident at a Spanish apartment complex early on Saturday.
Mr Brendan McDonald, of Abbeyview, Campile, Co Wexford, was holidaying in Torremolinos when he is understood to have lost his footing and fallen from the balcony of his fourth-floor apartment.
An only son of Mr Joseph and Ms Margaret McDonald, he had arrived in the holiday resort, located in Spain's Costa del Sol, four days previously with his girlfriend and two other friends.
Also survived by his three sisters, Mr McDonald had recently begun an engineering course in Waterford.
He formerly worked at the Lake Region factory in New Ross. Arrangements are being made to fly his body home.
Support for MacGill summer school
The Donegal county manager, Mr Michael McLoone, has issued a recommendation to local councillors that the council should offer financial support for the Patrick MacGill summer school, which has established itself as an important platform for the analysis of topics of a national interest.
The director of the school, Dr Joe Mulholland, has acknowledged that there have been increasing financial pressures associated with staging the school.
One option being considered is to include it on the list of conferences for circulation to all local authorities.
The event has been running for 24 years and was founded to commemorate the works of local author Patrick MacGill, whose books early in the 20th century on social conditions, emigration and the first World War are still being published and read.
Lobster fishing fees reduced
The Minister for the Marine, Mr Ahern, has agreed to halve the cost of fees for lobster pot licensing, following representations from his Dáil colleagues.
A new ruling signed into law at the weekend by the Minister will cut the cost of appealing licensing decisions from €380 to €150 for vessels of less than 12 metres in length.
Fees for other vessels have also been rounded downwards, he said.
The issue had been raised last week by the Independent Mayo TD, Dr Jerry Cowley, who said he had received many complaints from constituents.
Bunting's steps retraced
A west of Ireland folklorist and musician, Mr Joe Byrne, has begun a summer walking odyssey throughout Connacht to retrace the footsteps of Belfastman Edward Bunting more than 200 years ago.
Bunting, who was a young church organist, and his assistant, Pádraig Lynch, embarked on the tour in the late 18th century to collect the music and folklore of a dying Gaelic culture before it disappeared.
Starting in the Mayo Gaeltacht district of Tourmakeady, Mr Byrne, a primary school teacher from Aghamore in Co Mayo, has begun a month-long expedition aimed at collecting traditional poetry, songs and stories in remote parishes along the western seaboard.