Taoiseachs shock over Paris events

The Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD - who is due to be in Mullingar tomorrow, Saturday, morning, has expressed his shock at the events unfolding in France this evening.

"Once again we are witnessing carnage on the streets of Paris. Again the capital is suffering at the hands of those who seek only to wreak havoc and destruction on civil society.

My thoughts and those of all the Irish people are with the French people this evening. As ever we stand as one with them and will never bend to the evil of terrorism."