Mayor Joe Anderson is confident the city council will not have to repay an £8.2m European grant in the wake of Liverpool’s decision to abandon plans for a new stadium.

Britsh government plans to improve the efficiency of public services will encourage only cosmetic change and will fail to stamp out poor practices, a business group said today.

DUBLIN is considered one of the safer cities in the world. An international survey rated it 18th, well ahead of many other European cities.