A round-up of today's other stories in brief...
Two die from road collision injuries
Two road collision victims who were on life-support machines in the northwest have died in hospital.
Plasterer Karl Galvin (18), one of a family of eight from Riverstown, Co Sligo, died in Sligo General Hospital on Tuesday evening from injuries sustained when the car in which he was the front seat passenger collided with a pole on the N4 at Ardloy near Riverstown at 4am on Sunday.
The male driver of the car remains in Sligo General Hospital where he is being treated for multiple injuries.
Widow Lily Bustard (64) died in Letterkenny General Hospital yesterday from injuries she received in a three-car incident on a wide stretch of the N15 near her home at Clar, 3km from Donegal town, at 5pm last Friday week.
She never recovered from serious head injuries.
Woman tried to pass drug in court
A woman was arrested, charged and convicted, all in one day, when she was caught attempting to supply drugs to a prisoner in a courthouse.
Nicola Flood, Bracklone Court, Portarlington, Co Laois, attempted to convey €25 of cannabis resin to Mark Lyons, who was in custody on a charge of robbery at Tullamore District Court yesterday.
Garda Damien Mangan gave evidence of the offence while Mr Lyons sat in the dock. Judge John Neilan criticised Flood for attempting to supply a prisoner "when the prison services are trying to rid the system of drugs".
When asked if she had come to court for "the sole purpose of supplying drugs to a person in custody", she replied: "Yeah. And to see my cousin." Judge Neilan convicted her on both charges and fined her a total of €250.
Call to extend cancer screening
A politician whose wife is running a bus service from Donegal to Belfast for women seeking cancer checks yesterday criticised a move to extend the national breast screening programme to younger women while it is not yet available to women in the northwest.
Independent Donegal Cllr Thomas Pringle said a review has begun to determine if the lower age limit for women on the health service's national screening programme, BreastCheck, should be dropped from 55 to 47.
"I find this review offensive to the people of Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim. I am highly offended and angry that eight years after women on the east coast of Ireland have been using BreastCheck, the Government has still not made it available to the women of the northwest."
Drug awareness campaign in west
Music by Metallica and Green Day and a warning that one minor drugs conviction can scupper gap-year travel plans, are key elements of a new drug awareness campaign initiated in the west. The campaign, which was endorsed in Galway this week by Minister of State with responsibility for Drugs Strategy and Community Affairs John Curran, is the first initiative of its kind in the region.