Big Ben is to chime non-stop for three minutes to ring in the Olympic Games.

The ferry link between Cork and Swansea is to end, with the loss of 78 jobs.

PRAYERS should no longer be said when Dáil and Seanad business begins each day, two Labour politicians have said.

Wales is to stage the Ryder Cup for the first time in 2010 - and Scotland in 2014.

A new case of foot-and-mouth has been confirmed in an area of Wales previously free of the disease.