Aid workers say that 360 migrants rescued from the latest boat disaster were heavily traumatised and many couldn't communicate.
They were on a vessel which got into trouble off the coast of Libya on Wednesday, and many were rescued by the Irish boat, the LE Niamh.
Only around 25 bodies have been found - but there are fears more than 200 others could have died.
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France is to launch new air, land and sea searches around Reunion Island to try to find more wreckage from MH370.
The flight vanished in the Indian Ocean in March last year with 239 people on board.
Last week a piece of wing, known as the flaperon, was found washed up on the island.
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The top 10 Republican candidates vying to become American President next year have gone head-to-head in a live TV debate.
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and tycoon Donald Trump are among those taking part.
At the start, Mr Trump was questioned on demeaning comments he made about women on social media.
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Four teenagers are due in court this morning in connection with two assaults on pensioners in Athlone.
A taxi driver in his seventies was stabbed a number of times early on Tuesday after picking up two men on Church Street in the town.
Later that day, three youths armed with a firearm and an iron bar threatened and assaulted a shop keeper in his seventies on the Ballymahon Road.
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A new study released today shows that we have a largely positive attitude towards the Irish language.
However the ESRI and Amárach Research shows that this doesn't translate into widespread use of the language.
They say that about 41 per cent of people in the Republic of Ireland can speak Irish.
