A man is due in court this morning charged in relation to the death of a woman in County Louth.
57-year-old Elzbieta Piortrowska was killed in violent circumstances at her home in Ardee on Tuesday.
A 32-year-old man was arrested was arrested shortly after the incident.
Last night, he was charged in connection with the mother-of-two’s death. He is due before Drogheda District Court later this morning.
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A man is in a serious condition in hospital after a shooting in Bray, County Wicklow yesterday evening.
He was sitting in a car on St. Laurence's Terrace when he was shot a number of times through the side window of the car at 8:15pm.
The shots were fired from a dark-coloured car which then fled the scene.
The man, believed to be in his late 20s or early 30s, was taken by ambulance to hospital where he is in a serious condition.
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Representatives of the insurance industry are criticising delays to key motor insurance reforms aimed at cracking down on fraud.
Liberty Insurance wants to see a Garda Insurance Fraud Unit created and more consistency in compensation awards.
Insurance Ireland meanwhile is warning that a lack of urgency in reforming the sector is costing policy-holders.
The call comes on the second anniversary of the publication of the Cost of Insurance Working Group report.
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The leader of the British Labour Party will today continue his calls for a UK general election.
In a speech later this afternoon, Jeremy Corbyn will argue that an election offers the most "practical" and "democratic" way to "break the deadlock" over Brexit.
He will also use the speech to confirm that his party will vote down the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement next week.
The British Government is insisting Brexit will go ahead as planned on March 29th, regardless of the outcome of the vote.
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The US President has said his meeting with senior Democrats over the partial US government shutdown was a 'total waste of time.'
The shutdown has now gone on for nearly three weeks, as the country’s two main parties argue over funding for President Trump’s planned border wall with Mexico.
Democratic leaders said the president has a temper tantrum and walked out of the meeting - as they continued to refuse to release the funding.
President Trump said he walked out because “nothing else works.”
