A property developer was found not guilty today of criminal damage and dangerous driving charges in connection with an incident in which a concrete mixer truck was driven at the gates of Leinster House last September.

A NEW ‘national question’ stalks the land. The historical civil war between pro- and anti-treaty was replaced by extreme points of view on the North. These were represented as either a ‘Brits out’ and unitary state perspective or allowing a veto for unionist consent.

NOT for the first time the numbers just did not add up in the Dáil.

A second Anglo Irish Bank executive was being quizzed today by fraud squad officers probing alleged financial irregularities at the now nationalised lender.

THE number of job cuts at Anglo Irish Bank could hit 700 as it begins the first phase of its redundancy programme.