A round-up of today's other stories in brief
Three hospitalised after Garda car involved in head-on collision
TWO gardaí and one man were injured in a car crash on the outskirts of Limerick city yesterday evening. The head-on collision, involving a Garda car and a van, happened near the Amber Filling Station on the Old Cork Road just before 6pm.
All three were taken to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital suffering from multiple injuries. One of the crash victims is understood to have sustained serious injuries, but none are believed life-threatening.
Three ambulances, three units of the fire service and gardaí attended the scene and motorists were being advised to take alternative routes as there were major delays in the area.
The office of the Garda ombudsman is investigating.
Birdwatch warns of winter freeze
Birdwatch Ireland has warned that many species of garden birds will be wiped out if Ireland continues to have freezing winters.
Thousands of wrens, goldcrests, long-tailed tits and stonechats perished last winter as temperatures fell.
Niall Hatch of Birdwatch Ireland said: "We would appeal to people to leave out whatever scraps and food they can afford for the birds in their gardens. Thousands of birds were decimated last winter."
Sail training body Glenans to merge
Irish sail training body Glenans has voted to merge with its French counterpart to secure its financial future.
The "reintegration" of the Glenans sail training bases in west Cork and Co Mayo with Les Glenans in France and Italy is the "perfect partnership", according to Irish chairman Paul Rossiter.
The vote by the Irish will allow both centres to continue activity, having experienced difficult trading due to the recession, the Glenans club said.
Jury deliberates in murder trial
The jury will resume deliberations this morning in the trial of a 23-year-old man charged with murdering his father. James McInerney, Lacey Avenue, Templemore, Co Tipperary, has pleaded not guilty to murdering James "Jimmy" McInerney snr (56) at the family home on June 17th, 2009.
Mr Justice John Edwards said the primary defence case was that there was no unlawful killing because the killing was committed in reasonable self-defence. He said that if the jury accepted this they should acquit the accused.