FINE GAEL last night tabled proposals for an overhaul of the country’s sex trafficking legislation, saying the existing laws were “piecemeal and insufficient”.

THE Opposition signalled their intention to make the forthcoming elections a referendum on the Government’s performance as the campaign heated up yesterday.

WARRING Fine Gael European election candidates Sean Kelly and Colm Burke have clashed over the appearance of the former GAA president at a party for an independent TD supporting the Government.

THE Government has nationalised Anglo Irish Bank and overnight the national debt has been greatly increased.

Pressure on consumers from the rising cost of living showed no sign of abating last month with inflation increasing slightly to bring it back to 5% for the year.

ECO-FRIENDLY light bulbs are going out all over Ireland as the great Green glow predicted for this campaign begins to flicker.

LABOUR leader Pat Rabbitte yesterday moved to shore-up his party’s rainbow alliance with Fine Gael by ending confusion over whether he would go into Government with Fianna Fáil.

A ROW broke out at Cork’s County Hall yesterday when FF councillors were accused of hypocrisy after seeking to have collection of waste water charges postponed for a year.

Sinn Féin would reportedly prefer to support a minority Fianna Fáil government to forming a coalition.