A man is receiving treatment in hospital this morning after falling into the River Shannon while working on Thomond Bridge in Limerick yesterday.
His two co-workers were pronounced dead after being recovered from the water - their cage attached to a crane had collapsed into the water.
The third man managed to free himself and was rescued. He remains in University Hospital Limerick.
Gardaí and the Health and Safety Authority are conducting investigations into the incident.
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Three children are recovering in hospital after they were rescued from a lorry carrying 26 migrants in Austria.
The two girls and a boy, aged five and six, were found in a dire state when police stopped the vehicle after a chase near the town of St Peter am Hart on the border with Germany, a police spokesman said.
Austrian Police spokesman David Furtner described it as "a very close call", saying the children were already experiencing dizziness due to being in the hot lorry for so long and "would not have made it much longer".
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One of three TV journalists sentenced to three years in jail by an Egyptian court is asking the country's president to pardon them.
Australian Peter Greste has already been deported and is unlikely to face jail - but says he fears for his two colleagues, who are in prison in Cairo.
In a press conference, the Al Jazeera correspondent called on Egypt's president to overturn the sentence.
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Jimmy Barry-Murphy has stepped down as Cork Senior Hurling manager.
Earlier this month Cork County Board had said JBM had their full backing.
However he had taken time to consider his future with the county after Cork were beaten 2-28 to 0-22 by Galway in the All-Ireland quarter-final in Thurles earlier this summer.
Jimmy Barry Murphy was inducted into the GAA Hall of Fame last week.
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Senior members of the Ulster Unionist Party have voted to withdraw from Northern Ireland's power-sharing government.
They have decided to walk away over claims the Provisional IRA still exists.
The furore was sparked after the death of Kevin McGuigan - and a police assertion that some IRA members were involved in his murder.
