A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Three killed in separate road crashes
Three men were killed in two different road crashes in Leitrim and Wexford early yesterday.
Two were killed in a collision which happened at about 3am at Cloonaquinn Road, between Manorhamilton and Dromahair in Leitrim. They were travelling in a van and no other vehicle was involved.
A third man was being treated for his injuries in Sligo General Hospital last night. Gardaí have asked anyone with information on the collision to contact them at Manorhamilton Garda station (071 9820620)
Garry Sinnott (19) from Duncormick, Co Wexford died after his car lost control and struck a ditch at Rosegartland, Wellington Bridge at about 6.25am yesterday. He was pronounced dead at Wexford General Hospital His 22-year-old male passenger was being treated at the hospital for injuries described by gardaí as "not life threatening".
Asylum seekers sent back to UK
Twenty one asylum seekers were relocated to the UK last week after it emerged they had first sought refugee status in Britain, writes Carl O'Brien.
The Department of Justice confirmed that foreign nationals from Iran, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Syria had previously claimed asylum, or been granted visas, by UK authorities.
This information was confirmed following fingerprint comparisons on a EU database used for the comparison of fingerprints of asylum applicants and illegal immigrants.
Under the terms of the Dublin II regulation - which is intended to prevent "asylum shopping" across Europe - the UK accepted responsibility for taking back the asylum seekers.
So far this year 72 people have been transferred under this regulation. The majority (57) were sent back to the UK.
Minister moves on poll register
Minister for the Environment Dick Roche has sought a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on the Environment to discuss plans for updating the electoral register, writes Liam Reid.
Mr Roche wrote to the committee last Friday inviting input and suggestions from members.
The Minister yesterday rejected suggestions made by Labour on Friday that legislation should be introduced to allow information from the recent census forms to be used to update the register.
Mr Roche said such a move would be "an undermining of the confidentiality of the census".
American Ireland Fund raises $4.1m
The American Ireland Fund has raised $4.1 million (€3.21 million) for projects in both parts of Ireland at a dinner in New York, the largest sum the group has raised at a single event in its 31-year history, writes Denis Staunton in New York.
American Ireland Fund vice-president Kieran McLoughlin said that $1 million would be used to fund a series of the TV show Sesame Street to be produced and broadcast in the North.
The Fund will spend $400,000 on building and staffing an integrated school in Belfast, where Protestant and Catholic children can learn together from pre-school level. A further $1.5 million will go to 200 other projects on the island.
Postmortem due after prison death
A postmortem is due to be carried out this morning on the body of a 20-year-old prisoner who died after been taken from his cell in Limerick prison yesterday.
The young inmate was pronounced dead at the Mid Western Regional Hospital at 11am yesterday morning.
Attempts were made to resuscitate him in his cell and also in the ambulance but he was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital in Dooradoyle.