Taoiseach Simon Harris has condemned attacks on gardaí during a protest at a site earmarked to accommodate international protection applicants in Co Wicklow last night.

Gardaí maintained a presence at a site earmarked to accommodate international protection applicants in Co Wicklow last night, following a protest, but say there were no further incidents.

The Director General of the Irish Prison Service has said that in spite of the fact that over half of the country's inmates are serving sentences for violent crime, the level of violence in Irish prisons is relatively low.

A ballot of workers at Tara Mines on a new deal to reopen the mine is under way.

US troops have begun construction of a maritime pier off the coast of Gaza that aims to speed the flow of humanitarian aid into the enclave when it becomes operational in May, the Pentagon has said.