WITH promises to keep taxes low, enforce stricter law and order, prevent single mothers from unfairly claiming welfare and to lift a ban on stag hunting, you would be forgiven for thinking they came across an old Tory document rather than a fresh plan for a new Ireland if they opened Fine Gael’s manifesto yesterday.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell said today there would be no compensation for prisoners who were forced to slop out their cells.

THE National Women’s Council paid tribute to legal rights campaigner Josie Airey, who died on Monday after a long illness.