THE Government is failing impoverished people and putting lives at risk through its failure to fulfil its commitments to Third World Aid, the Conference of Religious of Ireland Justice Committee said yesterday.

FORMER UN high commissioner for human rights and former president Mary Robinson launched a scathing attack on the Government yesterday for reneging on its "solemn" pledge to give 0.7% of Ireland's national wealth to developing countries.

OVERLY protective parents may be stifling the risk taking and decision making abilities of their children - the business people of the future, a leading educationalist warned at the weekend.