-A music festival held in East Cork yesterday in aid of the Midleton Flood Appeal has been hailed a success. A month's worth of rain fell in just 24 hours during Storm Babet, leaving homes and businesses in the town under three feet of water.
-Gardaí and emergency services attended the scene of a multi vehicle collision near Glanmire last night. it happened on the M8 at around 6.30PM
-The jury in the Ashling Murphy murder trial is set to hear from one more witness this morning. 33-year-old Jozef Puska, of Lynally Grove, Mucklagh, Co Offaly, denies murdering the schoolteacher along the banks of the Grand Canal in Tullamore on January 12th last year.
-and Songs about alcohol are apparently vanishing from the airwaves. New research shows references to drink and getting drunk in music have dropped by 79 per cent in the past five years.
