A round-up of today's other news stories in brief.
Former FG deputy Luke Belton dies
Former Fine Gael TD and senator Luke Belton has died in Dublin aged 87.
A publican by trade, Mr Belton was first elected to Dublin North Central in 1965, and was a TD until 1981. He successfully changed constituency in 1977, when he was elected to Dublin (Finglas), alongside then first-time TD Bertie Ahern and Jim Tunney of Fianna Fáil. He was a member of the Seanad between 1982 and 1987.
Originally from Rathcline, Co Longford, he is one of seven members of the extended Belton family to have been elected to the Dáil since 1927.
These include sitting Fine Gael MEP Avril Doyle, and Louis Belton, who lost his Dáil seat for Longford Roscommon in 2002.
Application for release adjourned
A bid for release by a 19-year-old man who is serving an 11-month sentence for the unlawful carnal knowledge of a 15-year-old girl has been adjourned by consent at the High Court.
The application has been adjourned to July 19th pending the Supreme Court judgment outlining that court's reason for its decision to overturn a High Court ruling granting early release to a 41-year-old man who was serving a three-year sentence for unlawful carnal knowledge of a 12-year-old girl.
When the case of the 19-year-old came before Mr Justice Barry White yesterday, George Birmingham SC, for the State, said both sides had agreed it could be adjourned on consent to July 19th.
Pedestrian killed in Co Offaly
A 45-year-old pedestrian was killed when he was hit by a car in Co Offaly yesterday. Jimmy O'Brien, from Dunkerrin, Birr, Co Offaly, died after the collision which happened at Dunkerrin at 12.45am.
His body was removed to Nenagh General Hospital for a postmortem.
Garda warning over quad bikes
Gardaí in Inishowen, Co Donegal, have issued a warning about quad bikes as a local teenager fights for his life at a Belfast hospital.
The 16-year-old from Glengad, Malin, Co Donegal, is in a critical condition after the quad he was driving was involved in a head-on collision with a car.
A 17-year-old male pillion passenger was also injured in the crash but was released from hospital.
The 16-year-old was later transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.
Man jailed for sex assault on nun
A man who sexually assaulted an 82-year-old nun suffering from Alzheimer's disease at a Dublin convalescent home has been jailed for two years by Judge Katherine Delahunt.
Denis Cummins (61), from Griffith Parade, Finglas East, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to sexually assaulting the now deceased nun on February 17th, 2005.
Judge Delahunt said the victim was very vulnerable and this offence would raise concerns for such institutions as to how this could have happened.
She accepted that Cummins had co-operated with gardaí and had apologised to the family.
She placed Cummins on the sex offenders' register and ordered two years' post-release supervision.
Garda Paul Darley told Mary Rose Gearty, prosecuting, that when Cummins was challenged by a nun who witnessed the assault he told her he had only given the woman a kiss and some chocolate, and implied that he had not done anything inappropriate.
He later admitted what he had done. He had no previous convictions, and had not come to Garda attention since.
Garda Darley said the victim had been living in the convalescent home for 10 years, and after the assault staff and visitors noticed she was withdrawn, sad and distant.