Though she wasn’t present at the PAC meeting yesterday, Angela Kerins and her extortionate pay packet loomed large as committee members took aim, writes Political Editor Mary Regan

The PAC yesterday received a detailed Rehab response to 12 ongoing issues about the charity. It will discuss the letter — sections of which are outlined below — today.

Rehab’s chief executive has insisted there is nothing untoward about the involvement of close family members in a coffin importation firm which was directly linked to the charity.

It's the feelgood story that has everything - tears of joy, sporting triumph, Gangnam Style, a South Korean GAA team and random cake.

Roy Keane’s neighbour and namesake has one thing over the famous footballer.

Norwegian gunman Anders Breivik insisted today he would massacre 77 people all over again, calling his rampage the most “spectacular” attack by a nationalist militant since the Second World War.

Anders Breivik tried to defend his massacre of 77 people today, insisting he would do it again and calling his rampage the most “spectacular” attack by a nationalist militant since the Second World War.

Anders Breivik defended his massacre of 77 people today and boasted the bomb-and-shooting rampage was the most “spectacular” attack by a nationalist militant since the Second World War.

If THE obscenely expensive tribunals have proved one thing it is this; McCarthyism is not yet dead! If politicians have been found to have broken the law, try them in a court of law and film the proceeds. A billion euro for tribunals and all for what?

Set in 1692, The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s allegorical drama of witch hunts and hysteria, is still relevant today, says Colette Sheridan.

REPUBLICAN congressman Peter King, whose controversial hearings into radical Islam begin today, has said Muslims shouldn’t feel threatened or intimidated by his inquiry.

IN the 1940/’50s, the US endured the terrible scourge of Senator Joseph McCarthy who typified the extreme anti-communist movement in the US during that period.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addressed America’s troubled economy and called for “bold action” to halt the US housing crisis today.

Harrison Ford wants to work under George Clooney's direction after being impressed with his Oscar-nominated movie Good Night, And Good Luck.

One of the two Clooney films filling the 2006 Oscar rota … and a brilliant, searing, compelling drama set during the infamous Joseph McCarthy anti-communist witch-hunt of the l950s.

Former UK Labour MP George Galloway will appear before a US Senate committee to defend himself against accusations that he received vouchers for millions of barrels of oil from Saddam Hussein.

A Limerick man who hit a father of three over the head with bottles of beer during a drinking session and left while he bled to death was today sentenced to eight years in prison.

PUSHING an anti-communist crusade that riveted America a half century ago, Joseph McCarthy manipulated his Senate hearings

A LIMERICK man is in critical condition in hospital after being shot in the chest, but the attack is not linked to the city’s violent feud, gardaí said yesterday.