Protestors dressed as Brian Cowen will gather outside the Dáil this morning and make a special appeal to the Minister for Finance.

Campaigners demanding fairer trade deals between Africa and Europe will take their protest to the streets of Dublin today.

The Irish Association of Development Workers, Comhlamh, has called on the Government to oppose the European Commission’s policy of using aid to force poor countries to open their markets to Western companies.

WARNINGS from health workers and immigrants that female genital mutilation has taken place in Ireland has led to fresh calls for it to be made a specific criminal offence.

It was impossible that Minister for Agriculture Joe Walsh would emerge from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) negotiations in Luxembourg to the acclaim of farmers in all sectors of the industry, and inevitably that is what transpired.

SOME black people born in Ireland over the last three decades still don't feel at home, an anti-racism group said yesterday.

Irish development agency Comhlamh is appealing to the Government to introduce specific legislation against female genital mutilation.