European justice ministers are due to hold an emergency meeting in Brussels today where France and Belgium are expected to call for tougher border security.
It comes as the French President has ordered the 'intensification' of anti-IS strikes in Iraq and Syria.
Francois Hollande has also presented a UN draft resolution calling for global support in the fight against the so-called Islamic State.
Meanwhile, the French Prime Minister says police have conducted 600 raids targeting Islamic extremists in the week since the Paris attacks.
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Beaumont Hospital in Dublin has apologised to the family of an elderly man for failing to protect his dignity.
The Irish Independent reports that 81-year-old Gerry Feeney, who suffered from Parkinsons disease, was left exposed in a dirty gown at the hospital in December last year.
He died three weeks after his release.
An independent report - commissioned by the hospital following complaints by Mr Feeney's family - has found there was a failure to implement discharge and staffing level policies.
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A man remains in a critical condition this morning after he was seriously assaulted in Co Meath yesterday afternoon.
The 26-year-old - who is believed to be from Navan - was attacked in the Windtown Road area of the town at around 2pm.
He remains in intensive care at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, and gardaí are appealing for any witnesses to come forward.
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The number of homeless people in Cork rose by 63% in 2014.
The Simon Community says it has witnessed a dramatic surge in demand for its help over the last year.
Donations on the soup run went up by almost a quarter.
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Ireland's new DNA database will go live today.
It will be run out of the Forensic Science Ireland base in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, and will help gardaí to close the net on serial offenders.
Criminals who receive a sentence of five years or more will have a genetic sample kept on file.
