TOP Irish athlete Mark English has few illusions about his sport of choice.

Progressive Commercial Construction’s application for a major office development on Cork’s Albert Quay has been withdrawn.

UCD’s footballers congregated under the Belfield lights on Wednesday night, the finishing touches applied ahead of today’s sojourn north.

A staunch defender of Labour, in touch with the mood of the party’s grassroots, and a trade union supporter. Those were some of the descriptions of Galway East TD Colm Keaveney, who rebelled and voted against his party’s budget measures.

One of the world’s most famous and stunning solar phenomena is eagerly expected over Irish skies in the coming weeks, stargazers have said.

ENGINEERING courses are still struggling to attract new students, even from among those who formerly worked in the field.

ALMOST 160 jobs will be created in Ireland’s seafood processing sector over the next three years thanks to a special state investment package announced yesterday.

THE family of a talented athlete struck by a truck while walking home in the early hours of yesterday morning are preparing to turn off his life-support machine today.

IRELAND could develop a €1 billion green industry by specialising in the education of the 20,000 service engineers that will be desperately needed across Europe in the next 10 years, a European wind expert has said.

A NATIONAL wind energy academy is to be established in Donegal as part of the county’s efforts to market itself as the number one area in the country for wind energy.

Organisers of a world record attempt are hoping rock star brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher will join them in Ireland this week as their ancestral clan unites for a colossal get-together.

TWO cousins were yesterday buried side by side as a village engulfed in grief came to terms with the tragic loss of four young people.

A COLLEGE lecturer is hoping to end Donegal’s employment blackspot status by making it the video games capital of Ireland.

A college lecturer is hoping to end Donegal’s status as an employment blackspot by making it the video games capital of Ireland.

VACANT third-level places should be filled by factory workers who are being made redundant in Donegal and Louth, it was claimed yesterday.

The National Disease Surveillance Centre is investigating an outbreak of the mumps at three colleges in Westmeath, Donegal and Kildare.

I WRITE in response to the recent series of ad-hoc surveys and reports which purport to rank schools and counties in regard to percentage of students progressing to third-level education.

DESPITE its peripheral location, Letterkenny remains the fastest growing town in Europe over the past five years.

CHRIS CRONIN gave up her job of five years to start a psychiatric nursing course in Letterkenny this week.

A 21-year-old student at Letterkenny Institute of Technology died from meningitis last night.