19 illegal immigrants have been found hiding inside a truck bound for Dublin.

The 17 men and 2 women were discovered by UK border police in France in the early hours of last Friday morning as the lorry was about to board a ferry for Britain enroute to Dublin Port.

The stowaways, 12 from Iran and 7 from Vietnam, have been handed over to French police.

The Latvian driver is now custody.

/> A Dublin businessman – who rugby tackled a woman to the ground and sexually assaulted her – has today been jailed for 6 months and ordered to pay 75 thousand euros compensation to his victim.

The 27-year-old woman was walking along a North Dublin Street in the early hours of the 3rd of October 2011 when she was attacked by 53-year-old aviation broker Anthony Lyons of Griffith Avenue.

The businessman blamed his new cholesterol medication claiming he’d been overcome by an irresistible urge.

Judge Desmond Hogan said the manner in which the attack was committed puts it at the higher end of the scale as it involved violence of a seriously frightening nature.

All but 6 months of a six year prison sentence were suspended.

Syrian forces are reported to be using helicopter gunships to target rebel-held districts in Aleppo as the battle for Syria’s commercial capital continues.

The fighting has resulted in around 200,000 civilians fleeing the city, according to the UN.

Its warning of a looming humanitarian catastrophe.

Meanwhile France says it will call an urgent UN Security Council meeting on Syria.

/> The developer behind the Priory Hall apartment complex in Dublin has been declared bankrupt.

The High Court made the ruling against Tom McFeely after deciding that his main business interests were in Ireland and not the UK.

Mr McFeely’s UK bankruptcy was recently overturned when the British courts were informed proceedings were already underway in Ireland.

More than 240 people had to leave their homes at the Priory Hall complex last October due to concerns over fire safety.

/> Prosecutors are expected to charge James Holmes with multiple murder today after 12 people were shot dead at a Batman screening in Colorado ten days ago.

Holmes could face up to two counts, including first-degree murder, for each person he allegedly killed.

The 24 year old could also be charged with the attempted murder of all those inside the cinema in Aurora, near Denver, not just people he shot.

Prosecutors have said it will be several weeks before a decision is made on whether or not to seek the death penalty.

Only one person has been executed in Colorado since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.