IN a recent letter regarding the Dripsey ambush (Irish Examiner, July 22), Brendan Cafferty links the names of Mrs Lindsay and Fr Shinnick as people who decided to stop an ambush. And he questions why only Mrs Lindsay (a Protestant) was shot.

House prices in Ireland have risen by an average of 15% every year for the last decade, according to figures published today by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and Permanent TSB.

The number of primary school pupils in class sizes of 30 or more has increased by 5,000 in the past year, according to figures released to the Labour Party by the Department of Education.

Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness are meeting the Taoiseach in Dublin today.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams tonight looked forward to a future without the IRA – and to his party making a controversial move on to the new Northern Ireland policing board.