THE Government’s army of spin have been busy over the past week. They have been trying to convince us that the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) plan is: the only way to restore bank credit to the wider economy; there is no alternative and they know what they are doing.

WICKLOW councillors have expressed concern at plans by a pest control group to burn batches of hydrogen cyanide — a deadly chemical once used by the Nazis — on the fringes of a national park.

THE port of Umm Qasr is not only strategic for the coalition forces attempting to oust Saddam Hussein, it is vital to the very future of the town.