SOME 135 councillors have joined forces to reject the Lisbon Treaty claiming it would privatise public services and create a more militarised Europe.

Some 135 councillors have joined forces to reject the Lisbon Treaty today, claiming it would privatise public services and create a more militarised Europe.

ON April 3, the European Court of Justice made a ruling that asserts the right of business to use labour — human beings, from wherever they are cheapest — to gain competitive advantage where labour is dearer.

A 19-year-old Limerick man had both his eyeballs lacerated and was blinded for life after he was assualted with a hurley, a court heard today.

The Women on Waves group, whose abortion ship is docking in Cork later today, has called for a meeting with Health Minister Micheal Martin.