A round-up of today's other stories in brief...
Disposal plan for Clew Bay refused
A €16.4 million project, which would involve pumping treated leachate from Mayo's largest landfill site at Derrinumera, near Newport, into Clew Bay, has been refused planning permission by An Bord Pleanála.
The decision is a blow to Mayo County Council which is struggling to deal with the growing problem of dealing with the huge amounts of leachate - the toxic liquid that drains or "leaches" from landfill sites - produced at the remote Derrinumera location every year.
Last year, a huge volume of leachate was tankered to the Castlebar waste water treatment plant 13 kilometres away at a cost of more than €550,000.
Shellfish and fin-fish farmers, fishermen and local residents are celebrating the decision.
The planning board said it was refusing the proposal because of the sensitive nature of Clew Bay, a candidate special area of conservation.
Moyross youth spat at Jerry McCabe bust
A juvenile who spat at the bust of Det Garda Jerry McCabe in Henry Street Garda station in Limerick city and said "there aren't enough of ye dead" has been remanded to appear before Limerick District Court again in December.
Judge Tom O'Donnell was presented with a probation and welfare report for the youth at Limerick Children's Court on Tuesday, but asked for another probation update on December 9th. A number of other charges had been brought against the 16-year-old from Moyross.
Teenager killed after road race on pier
A Louth teenager was killed after his car hit a pier and overturned while he was road-racing with a friend.
Derek Sherlock (17), Mornington Park, Donacarney, Co Meath, died last January 28th from head injuries and asphyxiation as a result of an incident, between Drogheda and Mornington, Louth Coroner's Court heard yesterday.
Coroner Ronan Maguire described the death as a terrible tragedy caused by "the lethal combination of youth and speed".
Students warned on address move
Foreign students who come to Ireland to attend language schools and then move address without registering their new details will be prosecuted, the Galway District Court has heard.
South Korean national Jihwan Lee, with a former address at Ros Ard, Cappagh Road, Barna, and who now lives at Lios Altan, Lower Salthill, Galway, pleaded guilty to failing to register his new address with a Garda immigration officer in Galway within seven days of his change of address on July 31st.
He attended the Galway Cultural Institute in Salthill but moved address twice since his arrival, the court heard.
Garda immigration officer David Cormican said there was a "major problem" emerging with foreign students moving address without registering their new details and the Garda Immigration Bureau was finding it difficult to trace them.
"A lot more such prosecutions will be coming before the courts," he said.
Year in jail for harassing neighbours
A man has been jailed for a year for threatening to cut his next-door neighbour's head off.
Donegal District Court Court heard that Paul O'Rourke had been harassing sheep-farmer Charles Dobbyn and his family for 20 years.
He was jailed three years ago for eight months when he admitted harassment of Mr Dobbyn and his wife, Pamela, who live at Ardara, Co Donegal.
Judge Kevin Kilrane was told the latest threat - on November 16th last - was made within a month of the expiry of a Circuit Court order restraining O'Rourke from contacting his neighbour.