Fianna FÁIL is again in trouble for accepting donations that exceeded the permissible threshold.

Shane LOWRY, 22, certainly helped to raise the spirit of the nation yesterday with his magnificent performance in winning the Irish Open Golf Championship at Baltray.

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among member countries of the European Broadcasting Union.

There is hardly a human transaction that can be completed without some reference to broadband services. This reliance will only deepen, especially if we try to expand our vital knowledge-based economy.

TEMPTING as it might be to confront politicians asking for your vote over the coming weeks with a plague-on-all-your-houses tirade, the fleeting moment might be put to better use.

WE got another chilling glimpse of the depth of the crisis facing this country yesterday when the chief executive of the National Treasury Management Agency Dr Michael Somers told a Dáil Public Accounts Committee that his organisation said it is not adequately staffed to deal with the banking crisis.

WHEN someone leaves school before reaching leaving certificate level their options are limited but those options will be even more confined in the future.

TODAY we report the Paris-based International Energy Agency estimates new electronic gadgets will triple their energy consumption by 2030 to 1,700 terawatt hours, the equivalent of today’s home electricity consumption in America and Japan.

MORE than two years after the dreadful tragedy at Monageer, where Adrian Dunne murdered his wife Ciara and their two children Shania and Leanne before taking his own life, it is difficult to understand or even accept that it could have happened despite all the glaring warning signs.

DURING his visit to the Holy Land Pope Benedict XVI pledged to remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Despite this he has been subjected to growing controversy.