PRIME Minister George Papandreou appealed for unity from his own lawmakers yesterday to beat Greece’s debt crisis after two deputies quit and the IMF insisted there can be no back-sliding on agreed cuts.

TAX revenues plummeted further than expected but the amount citizens owe to the Revenue Commissioners is stabilising.

THE owner of a company that specialises in water treatment said yesterday she would be more concerned about airborne chemicals around Cobh than water contaminated by the toxic dump in Haulbowline.

An Athens-to-Strasbourg flight made an emergency landing in Munich this morning after a bomb threat was reported, a German air traffic control spokeswoman said.

The captain of the sunken Sea Diamond cruise ship blamed currents off a Greek island for last week’s accident, state-run television reported today.

Navy divers are searching the sunken wreckage of a cruise ship for the bodies of a Frenchman and his daughter, missing after the vessel foundered on a volcanic reef in Greece.

A LISTING cruise ship carrying nearly 1,600 people — most of them Americans — was being evacuated off the Greek island of Santorini yesterday after striking rocks in a lagoon, authorities said.

The British family at the centre of a suspected poisoning tragedy complained of feeling woozy the morning before the two children died, it has been reported.

A child aged about five of six who was aboard the Cypriot airliner that crashed in Greece was still alive after the plane slammed into a mountainous area north of Athens, Greek state television quoted a coroner as saying today.

Greece’s worst plane crash, in which 121 people died yesterday, appeared to have been caused by a sudden drop in oxygen.

A Greek bus with 26 people aboard was hijacked today by two men, reportedly Russians, who demanded to be taken to Athens airport, police and government officials said.

Limerick-based technology company e-net has been awarded the contract to manage the broadband network by the Department of Communications.

EXIT POLLS last night indicated Greece's opposition conservatives had won yesterday's general elections, ending more than 10 years of rule by the socialist party.

ANGRY former IFI workers have vowed to blockade any ships trying to remove 26,000 tonnes of ammonia stockpiled at the Marino Point plant in Cobh, Co Cork.

IRISH Fertilizer Industry workers from three plants North and South of the Border will protest outside the Tánaiste’s Dublin office next Thursday over redundancy payments and cuts in some pension funds.

A man held for questioning about terrorist attacks in Greece has reportedly confessed to killing British military attache Stephen Saunders.