A post mortem examination is due to be carried out this afternoon (Monday) on the body of a man found in the city yesterday.
An international boxer who took part in a €29,000 robbery from an Athlone jeweller, had his case put back a final time to March 24, as the judge warned the State to come up with a charge by this date or he could be forced to strike it out.
The woman who died in a house fire in Mullingar on Wednesday has been named locally as Noeleen McKenna (neé McCoy).
An additional 610 people signed on the live register in January of this year bringing the total unemployed in Mayo to 13,346, 3,444 up on the same time last year.
Kilkenny Top Pro Kickboxing coach Paul Cummins is about to take Hollywood by storm. The Kilkenny kickboxer stars in the newly released Hollywood blockbuster Strength and Honour alongside Hollywood actors such as Michael Madsen, Richard Chamberlain, Vinny Jones and Patrick Bergin.