It is fashionable in ‘southern’ media to uncritically characterise Donegal’s response to constitutional referenda as a uniform ‘no’. A more rigorous examination of the facts does not support this view (c.f. referendum on judicial pay).

A Cavan resident who owes Revenue over €427,000 has been jailed for four and a half years for tax evasion, threats to kill a Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) officer and serious driving offences.

The driver of a bus which hit and killed five people outside the Clarence Hotel in Dublin city centre three years ago was supposed to be on a day off but was doing overtime to pay for his daughter to go on holiday.