THE callous but not entirely unexpected decision of Talk Talk to stick to its 30 days’ notice for 575 workers in Waterford brings to the fore an issue which has preoccupied people in the south-east for many years — the question of creating a university there.

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ABOUT 150 jobs are to be axed over the next year with the closure of two manufacturing plants in the north-west.

Around 150 jobs are to be axed over the next year with the closure of two manufacturing plants in the north-west, it emerged today.

CHAMPIONS Limerick IT have been drawn against Galway IT in the first round of the Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup.

MORE colleges than ever before will be involved in the draws for the Datapac Third level championships in hurling and football, which will be held in Croke Park this morning.

AS yet another controversy flares in Northern Ireland about who and what is a Nazi, perhaps it is timely to reflect on the actual history and practice of world conquest and the extermination of inferior races.

DURING his recent visit to a World War 1 memorial in Belgium, the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, said he wanted to “lay to rest the spectre of violence in Ireland” and, to this end, he was inspired by Irish warfare (against Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Turks and others who never invaded, conquered, colonised or starved Ireland) in one of the most violent and bloody episodes the world has ever known.

A female garda has told a murder jury she was assaulted by a man arrested for breaching a barring order and whose partner is now on trial for his murder.

Plans by members of the Fianna Fail to recruit university students at a freshers’ week have been scrapped, it emerged today.

The world’s first ever specially trained nurses with a postgraduate degree in disaster relief nursing graduated today from the University of Ulster.

Meath treated champions Kerry to a lesson in Gaelic football today at Croke Park and booked their place in the All-Ireland final against Galway in three weeks.