IRELAND will be asked to make huge cuts in its CO2 emissions and to vastly increase the amount of energy from renewables in the EU’s climate change plan to be published next week.

THE 17-year-old brother of missing Dublin girl Amy Fitzpatrick has written her a heartfelt letter begging her to come home, and asking her not to be scared if she’s in a place she cannot escape from.

IRELAND’S regional airports will escape new EU rules they say would have increased their costs and made them less competitive.

SPANISH police investigating the disappearance of Amy Fitzpatrick have asked her family for DNA samples.

SPANISH police questioned the mother and stepfather of missing Dublin girl Amy Fitzpatrick twice for several hours yesterday.

SPANISH police have scaled down their search for missing 15-year-old Dublin girl Amy Fitzpatrick after they failed to uncover any clues following two days of intensive investigations.

THE search for missing 15-year-old Dublin girl Amy Fitzpatrick will resume this morning for a second day and will concentrate on the area where she was last seen in the Costa del Sol.

CONVOYS of jeeps roared away from the football pitch where two helicopters with thermal censor cameras were ready to take off.

POLICE, helicopters and sniffer dogs will carry out a huge search today of the area in Malaga where 15-year-old Amy Fitzpatrick was last seen eight days ago.

IRELAND retains most of its 2007 fish quota for next year despite the European Commission seeking a 25% reduction in a deal that has been criticised by conservation groups who say it will further deplete fish stocks.