The accounts show that Apple's Irish unit paid out €8.2 billion in corporation taxes for the 12 months to the end of September.

GARDAÍ in Carlow are appealing for information after a thief snatched a phone from a woman’s hand while she was out shopping. The incident happened in Penneys, Kennedy Avenue, Carlow on Tuesday 10 December at about 9. 20am.

Chengwen Guo (41), of Ivy Exchange, Parnell Street, Dublin 1 was refused bail on Saturday and faced his second hearing on Wednesday

The tech giant said it is aware of an issue where alarms do not play the expected sound.