The RTÉ board is in the firing line after Pat Rabbitte admitted his confidence in it was “shaken”.

FORMER senator and journalist, Kathleen O’Meara, has been appointed to the newly created position of head of advocacy and communications at the Irish Cancer Society (ICS).

CRUISING on the Shannon last week, auctioneer Paddy Jordan was enjoying time off after another record-breaking summer farm sale.

BIG, flat and beautiful, is the short story on Scorduff Farm, at Brosna, Co Offaly, which has hit the market with a fanfare.

FOUR out of five people believe that hospital care of the dying needs to be urgently improved, according to the first nationwide study of attitudes to death.