NOT surprisingly, as the Government meets in Cabinet session today to draw up a flood emergency strategy, the despairing prayer on the lips of those struggling to keep flood waters at bay is that their terrifying ordeal will never happen again.

The Government has established a new National Co-Ordination Committee to deal with the problem of 'ghost estates'.

KEEPING the Special Olympic flame burning in people’s hearts after the Games will be the biggest challenge of all, the chief coordinator of the European Year of People with Disabilities (EYPD) in Ireland declared yesterday.