FINANCE ministers were struggling last night to set up a fund worth potentially hundreds of billions of euro to shore up countries in danger of going bankrupt.

IS it discrimination to ban women covering their face in public?

GREEK citizens are not just facing working longer for less pay over the next few years, but a complete upheaval to their way of life.

A NUMBER of senior Irish diplomats and officials are in line for top jobs in the new, EU external action service.

AGREEMENT on the conditions for the €45 billion loan to Greece was just a matter of days away, the European Commission said as several countries turned against Germany and its hard line on the Mediterranean country.

IRELAND is to take part in training Somali security forces to help combat the pirates that have been terrorising vessels along the African coast and in some cases kidnapping and murdering their crew.

IRELAND – how do we do it?

GREECE’s decision to finally ask for a bailout loan from the eurozone and IMF has not ended fears that the country will default or that the euro currency is out of danger.

THE skies are open for business once again, but for how long is anyone’s guess.

WHEN the volcanic ash cloud covered much of Europe, the only option was to shut down the airspace, because nobody knew what else to do.