BUSINESSES yesterday picketed a Wexford hotel protesting over the €3.2 million they say they are owed by the owners since work was completed more than two years ago.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern said he was not impoverished, but not wealthy, when he was given a sum of £16,500 by a group of businessmen in 1994 despite already having savings of up to £70,000.

The Mahon Tribunal is due to hear more evidence today from two of the men who the Taoiseach says gave him cash in a pub in 1994.

One of the men who gave money to Bertie Ahern in 1994 has told the Mahon Tribunal he had only met Mr Ahern four or five times before he loaned him the cash.

O'Hanrahan's forward Ray Walker has broken a bone in his foot, adding further to Carlow manager Liam Hayes' current injury crisis.

JOHNNY NEVIN will decide this month whether the longest running senior inter-county career in the GAA will continue for another season.

Reform of the insurance market is teetering on the brink of collapse, it was claimed today.

Tipperary 1-14 Carlow 0-13