Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has told the Dáil that the next report from Justice Henry Barron into loyalist atrocities in the Republic in the early 1970s will be published in June.

The Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for last week’s Madrid train bombings has warned that its next targets could be Britain, Japan, Italy, or Australia, an Arabic newspaper reported in Cairo.

Relatives of people killed during the North's Troubles today welcomed a €3m fund set up by the Government.