Taoiseach Enda Kenny faced more protests from anti-water charge campaigners last night ahead of further talks among ministers this week on ways to reduce and ease bills for households.

A mayor has admitted that he is frightened to walk through his own city centre after dark.

FEARS that the water contamination crisis in Galway could cost the city tens of millions of euro in lost tourism has prompted business leaders to call for direct government intervention.

Ireland’s experience of the European Union has been “overwhelmingly positive”, the Minister for European Affairs said today.

The former vice president of the United States, Al Gore, will be visiting Ireland to deliver a keynote address at a forum to debate the Constitution for Europe.