An average of 74 political aficionados are logging onto their computers to watch each meeting of the Oireachtas Committee discussing the Lisbon Treaty, new figures show.

YES campaigners have being doing their best to obscure, minimise or deny that a whole-scale reordering of our political system would come about should the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty come into effect.

Denmark has handed over its ground force responsibilities in southern Iraq to the British military, but it sent four helicopters that will remain to support the operations.

The European Union today said the mutual trusts between religious communities had been badly damaged by the recent crisis over the Prophet Mohammed drawings, and called the furore a “most regrettable development”.