Noah Laird was only seven years old and gathering with other scouts to go on a trip when the accident happened at the estuary at Donabate in Co Dublin

Scouts had a blast at international jamboree in England By Ethna Quirke CARLOW was well represented at an international scouting jamboree last week as two local groups joined over 5,000 young people from across the world.

Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard Noel Sheehan (78) does not accept the jury's guilty verdict

A judge has jailed an 80-year old former Limerick Scout Leader to six years and eight months in prison for molesting five young boys, all scouts, “who still believed in Santa” in the 1970s and early 1980s