Labour MEP Proinsias de Rossa is calling on the Government to initiate legal action against Israel in light of the attack on the aid convoy last Monday and the boarding of the MV Rachel Corrie.

Fine Gael Foreign Affairs Spokesman Billy Timmins has said that boarding of the MV Rachel Corrie by Israeli troops "was plain wrong".

A bomb planted in a truck belonging to a UK-based Islamic aid group exploded in north-western Pakistan today, wounding its driver and three passers-by, an official said.