The two Early Neolithic homes date from between 3600 and 3700 BC - meaning they were built more than 500 years before Stonehenge and around 1,200 years before the Great Pyramid of Giza

A man, aged in his 40s, has been arrested in connection with the fatal assault of a man, aged in his 70s, at a home in Co Waterford

As part of this first phase, Mr Selvadurai Nayagam reviewed the care provided to a sample of 91 children whose surgery was carried out by the individual orthopaedic consultant.

Micheál Martin said there needs to be an ‘exhaustive’ review of unnecessary hip surgeries at two Dublin hospitals.