Four car collision on M50 northbound
A four car collision has happened on the M50 northbound, near the Junction 12 exit.
One person has been taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Four units of the fire brigade, an ambulance and gardaí attended the scene.
PSNI granted extra time to question man over Armagh death
PSNI detectives investigating the murder of a 31-year-old woman in Lurgan, Co Armagh have been granted additional time to question a 36-year-old man.
Police have been allowed an extra 36 hours to question the subject, who was arrested on Sunday.
The body of Laura Marshall was discovered in a flat on Victoria Street in Lurgan early on Sunday morning.
999 emergency call operators to go ahead with 12-hour strike
Staff operating the 999 emergency call service are to go ahead with a 12-hour strike on 7 April.
Conduit Global has said it rejects the Communications Workers Union plans to continue with the strike, saying that contingency plans have been put in place.
The strike is part of the call operators campaign for a Living Wage and trade union recognition.
Union members across all three emergency call centres (ECAS) in Ballyshannon, Dublin and Navan will also be working on a work-to-rule basis for one month from 8 April until 8 May inclusive.
533 patients on hospital trolleys
There are 533 patients on trolleys in emergency departments, or on wards today, waiting for admission to a hospital bed, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation .
The hospitals worst affected are St Vincent's University Hospital with 45 waiting, Beaumont with 43 and University Hospital Galway with 36.
The number of patients waiting has gone past 500 on 16 occasions this year but has not broken the 601 peak seen in January 2015.
Fire at Derry school treated as arson
A fire at a primary school in Derry last night is being treated as arson.
The blaze at the Holy Child Primary school in the Creggan area was reported around 9.30pm.
The fire started in the roof of the building and was brought under control after several hours.
Damage to the premises was limited and the school said it will open as normal today.
Legacy of austerity still in effect - economist
An economist has said while the economy has improved and people are getting back to work, things have not improved sufficiently to wipe out the legacy of years of austerity.
Anthony Foley of DCU's Business School has estimated it would take at least 15 years for people's incomes to return to pre-bust levels.
He said that while exchequer figures are ahead of target, income tax and VAT receipts are significantly below target.
He said he believed that the public finances are facing a much tougher situation over the next few years than over the past two years.
Death toll from Pakistan rains rises to 71
The death toll after heavy rains in Pakistan's northwest and in Kashmir has risen to 71, as rescuers try to evacuate dozens of people still trapped by landslides.
Ten more people were found dead in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after the weekend downpour triggered landslides and collapsed the roofs of dozens of houses.
"The number known to have died in rains so far in the northwest has now risen to 61 with over 350 houses damaged all over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa," a spokesman for the local disaster management authority said in a statement.
At least 30 people were still stranded following a heavy landslide in the area of Khoistan, he said.
47 Indian police jailed over killing Sikh pilgrims
A special court in India has sentenced 47 policemen to life in prison for killing a group of Sikh pilgrims in 1991 whom they had claimed were militants, a prosecutor said.
The officers were convicted of shooting dead the pilgrims to try to earn promotions in Uttar Pradesh state which at the time was hit by Sikh militant activity, the Press Trust of India said.
The officers stopped a bus carrying the pilgrims and their families before later marching 11 of them into a jungle area of the northern state and carrying out the killings, a prosecutor said.
The court of the Central Bureau of Investigation found the police guilty of carrying out a "fake encounter", a term commonly used term in India for staged confrontations in which police or military forces execute unarmed suspects and later claim it as self-defence.
Union says Sainsbury's restructure could result in major NI job loss
The Unite trade union says restructuring plans by the supermarket group Sainsbury's could result in up to 200 job losses in stores in Northern Ireland.
The union says stores in Belfast, Derry and Dungannon could be affected by Sainbury's proposals to cut 2,500 jobs across the UK.
Unite said they would be working with management to minimise the redundancies.
