Niall O'Connor

The incident in the Dooradoyle area of Limerick city happened shortly after lunchtime when a member of the public discovered the man.

The alarm was raised at 1.30am this morning when the Coast Guard received a distress signal from the Armaven Tres, a Spanish fishing vessel.

During the debate TDs strongly criticised the Government’s failure to enact the Occupied Territories Bill ahead of the dissolution of the Dáil tomorrow.

No Irish soldiers were involved in the incident and all are safe in their bases across the south.

For the last several months the tunnel has seen regular closures from 9pm at night with traffic directed back into the city.

The event in Brussels will be hosted by representatives of the enlisted and officer ranks of the Irish Defence Forces.

The incident happened yesterday afternoon at a location near Jervis Street shopping centre and Capel Street.

Last week Niall O'Connor travelled to South Sudan and the Sudan border to report on the forgotten African crisis. This is his first dispatch from the region.

The security alert at Gatwick Airport ran in tandem with a second incident at the US embassy in London.

It is the latest incident in which Hezbollah rockets have struck UNIFIL camps.