Gardai resumed searches in the Slieve Bloom Mountains as part of the upgraded murder probe into Fiona Pender’s 1996 disappearance.

A man has been arrested after posting online threats to harm children, prompting a precautionary lockdown at a Laois primary school.

An Athlone mother is pleading for access to a drug not yet available in Ireland that could slow the decline of her two sons with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.