Marriage Equality Referendum is ‘about us. It’s not going to affect anybody else’; Judge discharges foreman of jury in Sean FitzPatrick trial; and a video of the demolition of Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Iron Age stone heads and gold Torc feature at sale.

Transport and Tourism Minister Leo Varadkar has said it would be appropriate for the Oireachtas Finance Committee to call in officials from NAMA.

Financial markets rose today after European Union leaders threw a lifeline to the eurozone’s tottering banks.

It had certainly been a long time coming.

IT will go down in the annals of political disaster as the (Household) Charge of the Light(weight) Brigade.

Brian Wilmot maintained his perfect senior championship record by beating David Murphy in the last shot in Pool C at Templemartin on Saturday.

AN UNUSUAL friendship is the theme of Quick, Slow, Mango! By Anik McGrory (Bloomsbury; €7.10).

SALE director of rugby Kingsley Jones felt poor discipline had cost his side victory against Toulouse at Edgeley Park.

A FLYING frog, the world’s smallest deer and the first new monkey to be found in over a century are among 350 new species discovered in the eastern Himalayas in the past decade, the (World Wildlife Fund) WWF has said.

THE Leinster squad to face Edinburgh in the opening game of the Magners League season in the RDS on Saturday (5.30pm) has been named.

Disinfectant measures at ports and airports in the North to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease have ended, it emerged today.

DOCTORS at a Tipperary hospital depend on a weekday-only taxi service to transport MRSA swabs for analysis to Limerick.

Ronnie O’Sullivan returns to action today at the Malta Cup looking to break a long-standing hoodoo at the first overseas event of the season.

THERE are currently up to 800,000 Irish people using social networking site Bebo — and it is second only to Google as the most widely used website in Ireland.

CHILDREN nationwide are being given a unique opportunity to prove they are a “glass act”.

THE Coalition parties clashed last night over controversial plans to allow Northern politicians speak in the Dáil.

French President Jacques Chirac called on Iran yesterday to cooperate in nuclear talks or risk having the issue sent to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.

Russian security services today killed a prominent Chechen rebel wanted for a series of planned chemical attacks, Russian news agencies reported, citing the top spokesman for Russian forces in Chechnya.

A former paratrooper who joined the Ulster Defence Association after Bloody Sunday told the Saville Inquiry today that he served a sentence in the high security Maze Prison for firearms offences.

Serb forces pillaged Kosovar Albanian villages in 1999, leaving the bodies of children and even a crippled old woman in the smouldering ruins, a retired farmer testified at Slobodan Milosevic’s war crimes trial today.