The FAI Ford Cup quarter-finals will see Shelbourne host Shamrock Rovers in a meeting of last year’s beaten finalists and the reigning league champions.

The first five months of the year saw a 60% increase in the number of calls to Ireland's Senior Help Line.

Bray Wanderers will start slight favourites when they play host to Shelbourne in the pick of tonight’s 11 FAI Ford Cup ties at the Carlisle Grounds (7.05 pm, live on RTÉ 2).

A woman whose family has been locked in a right-of-way row with a local sports club interrupted Mass on Easter Sunday to voice her concerns over the saga.

A SENIOR executive with an archeological firm has been awarded €90,000 after the Employment Appeals Tribunal ruled that she had been constructively dismissed after the company tried to impose extra conditions on her return to work following a period of sick leave due to breast cancer.

SENIOR members of the Adoption Authority have met with the Children’s Minister to report on “important improvements” in Vietnam’s inter-country adoption procedures.

SENIOR executives at the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) were stunned by a raid on their Dublin headquarters yesterday by some 15 Competition Authority officers investigating alleged milk price-fixing.

Senior Liberal Democrats were this evening poised to admit defeat in the British referendum on electoral reform as the first results delivered large majorities for the No camp.

A SENIOR manager of a Co Clare engineering firm has secured a €185,000 compensation payout after the Employment Appeals Tribunal ruled that he was unfairly sacked from his job by the firm’s US parent company.

SENIOR trade union officials said it came as no surprise that the regional hospital in Limerick was ranked as one of the two worst performing hospitals in the country.

A SENIOR executive engineer with Mayo Co Council has appeared before a hearing of the Standards in Public Office (SIPO) Commission yesterday – the first formal investigation into a public service worker.

A SENIOR health manager apologised yesterday for delays which have left a new €16 million community nursing unit lying idle for over a year.

SENIOR management at Bank of Scotland (Ireland) are believed to have applied to head-up the new company that will be set-up to run the bank’s €32 billion loan book following its pull out of Ireland.

Galway United take on non-league Malahide United in the FAI Ford Cup third round at Terryland Park tonight, kick-off 7.45pm.

GOALS from Gerry Bambrick and Danny Loughran sent Crumlin United through to the FAI Intermediate Cup final at the expense of hosts Rockmount in Whitechurch yesterday.

MORE than €60 million will be paid out to patients who have suffered from serious medical errors in the health service this year – a massive rise which almost equals the total figure over the last five years.

A SENIOR trade union official has appealed to customers of Permanent TSB to refrain from abusing the bank’s staff in protest at its recent controversial decision to raise its mortgage interest rates.

The North’s new Lord Chief Justice put down a marker for the province’s politicians today that he would brook no interference with the independence of the judiciary when responsibility for policing and justice were devolved to Stormont ministers.

A SENIOR member of Port of Cork management has accused the Green Party of being anti-industry and intent on turning the harbour into a giant tourist attraction.

SENIOR bank officials will appear before a Dáil committee today to explain to small businesses why successive interest rate cuts have not improved the availability of loans.

SENIOR officials at Cork University Hospital have raised concerns that the facility’s oncology service could be put under severe pressure if any cap on the number of oncology outpatients seen at Mercy University Hospital is introduced.

SENIOR council officials have claimed the true extent of vacant local authority houses is much lower than official figures would suggest.

A SENIOR US envoy extended talks in North Korea in a bid to save a troubled disarmament pact and convince secretive Pyongyang not to restart a nuclear plant that makes arms-grade plutonium.

SENIOR management at Kerry County Council do not want any more houses along the N22 road between Tralee and Killarney.

Senior Democratic Unionists are hopeful today that there will be a seamless handover from the Rev Ian Paisley to the next leader of his party, following his decision to stand down after 37 years.

SENIOR officials from the Department of the Environment have been invited to Cork in an effort to ease their concerns about the city’s delayed central library project.

A SENIOR officer with the African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur in western Sudan was attacked yesterday by gunmen who seriously wounded his driver, the force said in a statement.

SENIOR officials on Kerry County Council have claimed that a deferral system for planning applications is being abused.

SENIOR management at Aer Lingus raised concerns about the future of its transatlantic flights from Shannon in communications with the Department of Transport, it has emerged.

Bray Wanderers hammered Leinster Senior League side St Mochtas 7-0 in the second round of the FAI Ford Cup yesterday with Paul Dunphy grabbing a hat-trick for the Seasiders.

A SENIOR army officer will make a nostalgic trip to the Lebanon next weekend to a spot where he was nearly blown up by a mortar.

Sasa Punosevac has been appointed coach of the Irish senior women's international team.

Documents suggest the Government considered import controls, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

INCREASING numbers of elderly people are being bullied into signing over their property or land by abusive carers or relatives, an expert on elder abuse told a conference yesterday.

POLICE yesterday arrested three people at Heathrow Airport under the British anti-terrorism laws, but refused to link the suspects to last week’s bombings in London.

The team with the worst home record in Ireland, Kilkenny City, take on the team with the worst away record, Finn Harps, at Buckley Park.

A SENIOR executive from the Irish operation of reinsurance firm General Re has been charged in the US with assisting fraud at insurance giant American International Group (AIG).

A SENIOR executive at the Dublin arm of reinsurance firm General Re is facing a civil fraud action by US financial regulator the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC).

A SENIOR executive with a Dublin-based pharmaceutical company has sold his entire stake in the firm to fund the separation from his wife.

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A SENIOR Pakistani al-Qaida operative who used to run one of the terror group’s training camps in Afghanistan has been arrested in the United Arab Emirates and handed over to Pakistani officials, the information minister said yesterday.

Ray Ryan, Agribusiness Correspondent

A SENIOR manager in the civil service has been awarded €40,000 by an equality tribunal after he was denied promotion on age grounds.