The Buy My Dress fundraiser will raise vital funds for the Down Syndrome Centre this Sunday. Arlene Harris talks to Triona Cussen who says the campaign will help others like her son.

A MANAGEMENT team at BMD, a subsidiary of Cork-based construction firm the Bowen Group, has bought the company from NAMA.

The United States is considering establishing a missile defence system in Europe designed to stop a ballistic missile threat from the Middle East, the Pentagon said today.