MINISTERS were under pressure last night to explain why only one in five civil servants have moved under the Government’s decentralisation plan, launched more than four years ago.

MAVERICK mid-west Fianna Fáil backbenchers who previously criticised the Government’s failure to intervene in the Shannon controversy were absent for yesterday’s Dáil debate.

MID-WEST Fianna Fáil TDs were criticised yesterday for failing to force through a symbolic victory for those campaigning for the retention of the Shannon-Heathrow service.

NO SOONER is one election over than a host more are set to begin.

A NEW deal on transatlantic flights signed in New York yesterday by the Irish and US governments has received a mixed reaction.

Education spokeswoman Jan O’Sullivan has become one of the first Labour candidates chosen to contest the next general election, the party announced today.

BABIES in Limerick are already weekly church goers long before they are baptised.

BERTIE AHERN and Mary Harney yesterday staked the Government’s future on the Tánaiste’s ability to deliver on the controversial health service reform programme.

A SPECIAL garda Emergency Response Unit (ERU) should patrol Limerick permanently to tackle crime, former Fine Gael leader Michael Noonan said yesterday.

MORE than 800 retired gardaí who say they are denied their full pension rights had their claim for an increase in payments rejected yesterday by Justice Minister Michael McDowell.