The incident took place in Rathfriland shortly after 8.30pm on Friday.

The EPA said that the Ballymore Eustace plant produced unsafe drinking water for a period of up to 10 hours from August 20th-21st.

He was taken to University Hospital Limerick, and it's understood he's since been transferred to hospital in Cork for treatment.

The women have called for an independent inquiry into the allegations.

Almost a quarter of Covid deaths here since April were among fully vaccinated people. While 17 per cent of ICU admissions over the same period were also fully vaccinated.

The proposal, contained in a report on the country's ageing population launched by Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe, could see workers unable to get a State pension until they are in their 70s.

The practice of routinely tracing contacts of cases who have flown into Ireland was ceased last week without announcement.

Liam Doran, a former general secretary of the INMO, was among the members of SIAC who met with Stephen Donnelly on Friday evening, the first such meeting since the resignations last week of the council's chair Professor Tom Keane and executive director Laura Magahy.

The “serious incidents” occurred in drinking water plants that served parts of Dublin and Wexford

TUV leader Jim Allister and loyalist activist Moore Holmes were among the speakers