IT’s not too often, I’d wager, that Angie Best is eclipsed in the fashion stakes but at the launch of the FAI’s premium ticket scheme for the new Lansdowne Road in Dublin on Thursday, the former other half of the late, great George had her thunder stolen by an elderly grey-haired man.

Football fans will fork out up to €32,000 for top corporate tickets at the new Lansdowne Road stadium, it was announced today.

FAI chief executive John Delaney has shown Fine Gael’s Olivia Mitchell the red card amid her claims that the redevelopment of Lansdowne Road was running into financial trouble.

The Iraq Study Group’s members found it so hard to agree on their recommendations to US President George W Bush that they almost came to blows, its co-chairman has reportedly revealed.

British prime minister Tony Blair has urged a stepping up of efforts to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a bid to end bloodshed in Iraq.

BRITISH-BASED tycoon Lakshmi Mittal announced a dip in profits for the world’s largest steelmaker yesterday after prices softened and raw material costs rose.

Mark Sage, New York

The hunt for Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction has formally come to an end in Iraq, it emerged today.

The US forces killed and wounded in an explosion that went off after they began a search of a Baghdad building on Monday were members of the Iraq Survey Group, the combined military and intelligence task force scouring Iraq for weapons of mass destruction.

US weapons hunters in Iraq have found some new details of Saddam Hussein’s weapons programmes, including more evidence that the regime had civilian factories able to quickly produce biological and chemical weapons, the CIA’s top weapons inspector told senators.

United States President George Bush said tonight he was “determined to figure out why” stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction had not been found in Iraq, as he announced a commission of inquiry.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair last night bowed to pressure to tackle why no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have yet been found in Iraq.

A fresh inquiry is to be held into intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s supposed arsenals of weapons of mass destruction, it was claimed today.

A BRITISH defence minister at the time of the Iraq war said yesterday it was "increasingly likely" the intelligence on which the British government relied ahead of the conflict was 'deficient'.

Intelligence reports suggesting that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction were correct, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has insisted.

The CIA named a new inspector to lead the search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, choosing a veteran investigator who has expressed scepticism that Saddam Hussein possessed banned weapons that posed an immediate threat.

The top United States weapons inspector in Iraq is stepping down, it was announced the evening.

Tony Blair today admitted he did not know whether any Iraqi weapons of mass destruction would ever be found.

The Football Association of Ireland today agreed unanimously to fundamental reforms at its EGM in CityWest.

The search for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq has so far drawn a blank.

The weapons inspector given the task of finding Saddam Hussein’s much-vaunted weapons of mass destruction tonight declared that he had found none.

The Football Association of Ireland today voted in reforms which they say will change the way football is governed in Ireland.

Iona Technologies (Nasdaq: IONA) has named Steve Fisch as its new Chief Operating Officer.