In addition to contending with international crises involving North Korea, IS, Russia, and Syria, the NSC, which advises the president, is riven by infighting says Daniel R DePetris.

Almost 8,000 cases of alleged adult abuse were reported to the HSE last year.

Almost 8,000 claims of adult abuse or neglect have been made to the HSE.

One in three people have either personally witnessed or suspected the physical abuse of a vulnerable adult — very often in the home.

It took investigators two years to break Watergate, and six years to uncover Iran-Contra, writes Tim Weiner. There is no guarantee the probe into Russia and the 2016 election will move any quicker

The National Space Centre (NSC) is hoping to reactivate one of the largest antennae in the world, with the possibility it could be used to search for extraterrestrial life.

Olympic medals have always been decided by milliseconds and fingernails, but it was Dave Brailsford who introduced the world to the concept of ‘marginal gains’.

Imagine a national sports body at odds with its constituent parts about money.

Elsewhere in these pages today, you’ll read of Dublin GAA’s new car deal.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy insists Dublin won’t get first call on the Association’s new €8m centre of excellence on the National Sports Campus (NSC) in Blanchardstown.

Billy Twomey believes his new acquisition, Codarco, has the talent to go all the way, including “possibly” to the Olympics, but he will be taking it one step at a time.

Britain's National Security Council has agreed unanimously that the world “should not stand by” after the “unacceptable” use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said.

British MPs will be recalled to Parliament in the UK for a debate and vote on Syria on Thursday, David Cameron announced today.

Britain’s armed forces are drawing up contingency plans for military action in response to the chemical weapons attack in Syria, Downing Street said today.

Despite having to deal with splatter attacks by crows, a facility in Co Cork is at the centre of Irish satellite technology, writes Claire Droney.

Ten years ago some caravans had to be coaxed from a field in Mahon to make way for a squat cube building that now houses the National Software Centre (NSC).

AN Irish company has signed a deal with a leading Russian university to track potentially dangerous space junk from its hi-tech facility in Co Cork.

David Cameron will chair a meeting of Britain's National Security Council on Libya (NSC-L) today after cutting short his holiday, Downing Street said.

IRISH school-children will be able to control one of Europe’s biggest radio telescopes and “listen” to distant galaxies as part of an exciting project.

IT was destined for the scrapheap, but a rusted and outdated satellite dish will soon be transmitting sounds from the very edges of the known universe.

THE Fianna Fáil/Pegressive Democrat coalition has presided over many a fiasco, but its treatment of victims of sexual assault and violence is particularly shameful.

YOU report that “a dramatic downturn in road deaths since the introduction of mandatory alcohol testing has resulted in the saving of 41 Irish lives” (Irish Examiner, December 9).

Thailand’s military rulers have chosen an interim civilian prime minister for a provisional government set to replace the administration of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, an official said today. He declined to name the person.

IN response to William Campbell’s letter headlined ‘Safer roads: figures turned into fiction’ (Irish Examiner, July 18), I wish to point out that the National Safety Council (NSC) has never called for children to be banned from cycling.

IT would be more accurate if your July 15 headline ‘How our roads are three times safer than 1980s’ read ‘three times less dangerous’.

YOUR lead story claiming ‘our roads are three times safer than 1980s’ (Irish Examiner, July 15) is a textbook example of how accurate statistics can be twisted into nonsensical conclusions.

NO SINGLE body is promoting fire safety or running educational programmes, despite up to 100 deaths in fires in the last two years in Ireland, a former activist in fire safety claims.

THE Government was warned six years ago that its failure to tackle the annual toll of more than 400 fatalities on Irish roads was in danger of becoming a national scandal.

SALMON netsmen throughout the country descended on the Dáil yesterday to campaign against plans they say will kill off their livelihoods.

The National Safety Council tonight urged all road users to take extra care following a ’Weather Advisory’ from Met Éireann.

Overtaking lanes are just one measure that could make a major difference in tackling the carnage on the country’s roads, a major conference heard today.

NO SINGLE body is promoting fire safety educational programmes and media campaigns now the National Safety Council is being subsumed into a new body, a leading safety campaigner said yesterday.

MOTORCYCLISTS are six times more likely to be killed in crashes than other road users, it was revealed yesterday.

Motorcyclists are six times more likely to be killed in crashes than other road users, it was revealed tonight.

ROAD chiefs are to publish safety leaflets in eight different languages to halt the toll of foreigners being killed here.

THE Government last night confirmed it is to address the issue of funding for rape crisis centres after a report warned the future of some centres was under threat because of a lack or resources and staff.

A MAN in his 80s was killed last night in a road accident near Mullingar, bringing to 52 the number of people killed on Irish roads already this year.

RANDOM breath testing of motorists will be discussed at an Oireachtas Transport Committee meeting tomorrow.

The National Safety Council tonight called for high visibility gardai, speed cameras at accident black spots and more checkpoints after a series of accidents from midnight on Friday left seven people dead.

The former chairman of the National Safety Council, Eddie Shaw has blamed the Minister for Transport for bringing about his resignation last November.

FORMER chairman of the National Safety Council, Eddie Shaw, has blamed comments made by Transport Minster Martin Cullen as one of the main reasons for his shock resignation several weeks ago.

EDDIE SHAW was clearly very disillusioned with politicians when he decided to step down in November, some six weeks before the end of his term as Chairman of the National Safety Council (NSC).