ON THE day the Government announced new taxation measures aimed at cutting the budget deficit by €1 billion, gardaí are investigating how a Slovakian man, who had been sleeping rough, died on a street in Dublin city centre.

A LIMERICK woman who brings hundreds of foreign students to north Cork every year to learn English, has won a major award for rural business.

A furious Government demanded tonight that Slovakia explain itself after an unsuspecting electrician was allowed to carry explosives on a flight to Dublin in a botched security exercise.