Gardai are investigating after threats were made to set a direct provision centre on fire in Co. Wicklow.
Almost three hundred asylum seekers reside at the former hotel in Wicklow town.
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Over €200,000 worth of suspected cocaine and two guns have been seized by Gardaí in Dublin.
The drugs were discovered, along with an assault rifle and a machine pistol, during a searches at a residential complex in Finglas.
It formed part of ongoing operations targeting organised crime.
China's announced two new deaths from Covid-19, a day after reporting its first death in nearly six months.
The country is facing a surge in new infections.
The southern city of Guangzhou is battling the largest outbreak and entered a five-day lockdown following reports of more than 24-thousand new cases over the weekend.
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'Intense' falls of rain are possible this morning, with weather warnings in place until tonight.
A yellow rainfall warning is already in place for Cork and the entire country until 8 o clock this evening.
A status orange warning comes is in place for Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow until midday.
