The Government is being told it needs to spell out and be clear about the cuts planned in this year's Budget and those up to 2014.

The sister of murdered Irish aid worker Margaret Hassan claimed that the man accused of her murder went missing just before his retrial.

THE Government must be prepared to take tougher measures than planned to keep the national finances on track if its growth assumptions fail to materialise, the Central Bank warned yesterday.

The number of smokers in Ireland has dropped by almost 200,000 in the last six years, a major conference on European tobacco control has heard.