A LANDOWNER has been freed from jail after promising not to trespass on or interfere with one of the most strategic communications sites in south-west Ireland.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell tonight accused Green Party supporters of being involved in vandalising his Progressive Democrats party offices during the Love Ulster riots last month.

A witness in the trial of a garda accused of assaulting a protester at the 2002 ‘Reclaim the Streets’ march in Dublin has claimed that the battery of his video camera was ripped out by a garda.

TWO people suffered serious head wounds and a total of 25 were injured during last week’s May Day disturbances, organisers of the protest march to Phoenix Park said yesterday.

THE makers of a powerful documentary on an attempted political coup in Venezuela were yesterday announced overall winners of the 2003 ESB Media Awards.