Diageo, the country’s largest drinks company and owner of Guinness, is to pour millions into a public awareness campaign aimed at preventing excessive drinking.

GAY RIGHTS campaigners have warmly welcomed an announcement by the Minister for Justice that a working group is to be established to examine the introduction of civil unions for gay and cohabiting couples.

UNELECTED, unaccountable and almost completely untouchable.

The all-party Oireachtas committee formed to investigate the death of John Carthy in Abbeylara, Co Longford last year has visited the scene where he was killed.