The Taoiseach has ruled out any further legislation on abortion — despite at least three senior ministers stating they favour allowing terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities.

Taxpayers will end up with a stake of no more than 36% in Bank Of Ireland under plans announced by the company this morning to raise €3.4bn in capital and avoid nationalisation.

CATHOLIC bishops are waiting to see the details of guarantees on the Lisbon treaty before indicating their position on it, Most Rev Diarmuid Martin, the Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, has said.

KATIE TAYLOR’S participation in the London Olympics in 2012 is in serious doubt, according to President of the Olympic Council of Ireland, Pat Hickey, who said yesterday that the inclusion of women’s boxing was far from a done deal.

THE three winners of the 2007 Bank of Ireland Business Banking-Macra na Feirme national leadership awards are from South Tipperary, Meath and Wicklow.

BONO and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will address the World Newspaper Congress, which will held here for the first time in June.