Senator Ivor Callely has insisted he complied with all regulations relating to his expenses.

THE Minister for Social Protection yesterday ruled out reviewing the four-year lead-in time for a new retirement age of 66.

Allegations of phone tapping at Britain’s best-selling Sunday newspaper were dismissed today by the industry’s watchdog.

IMPEACHMENT proceedings against Judge Brian Curtin are unlikely to begin before next year’s General Election because of the protracted legal challenge to the Oireachtas procedures.

THE Oireachtas is entitled to have access to a computer seized by gardaí from the home of Circuit Court Judge Brian Curtin, lawyers for the State have claimed before the Supreme Court.

Sam Dash, the former chief Watergate counsel who became a household name in the 1970s died today after a lengthy illness, his family said. He was 79.

BRITISH Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon launched a bid to save his political career yesterday, shifting blame for the Dr David Kelly row away from himself and the Government.

Sinn Fein is involved in a voting fraud on a massive scale in Northern Ireland, Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble said today.