The Supreme Court has struck out an appeal over a €46,000 valuation placed on a man’s Tory Island holiday home which "disappeared" while he was abroad over a number of years.

The company that manages Croke Park for the GAA paid €3.5m to the Ard Chomhairle in 2011, down from €7m in 2010 and the €10m paid in 2009.

PARTNERSHIPS in Munster have been the most successful overall in drawing down national Rural Development Programme (RDP) funding of more than €9 million paid out so far this year.

WE, the undersigned national childcare organisations, formed as the National Voluntary Childcare Collaborative (NVCC,) are calling on Minister Brian Lenihan to highlight the outcry we are aware of from our close contact with a very large number of families and children in a wide variety of settings, including pre-schools, community and private childcare services and hospitals.