HOMEOWNERS have been told they should share the burden of a new €450 million residential water tax to be fully operational by 2014.

“THE best fighter money can’t buy” was how Joe Higgins described himself on his black and white election posters scattered around Dublin in recent weeks.

THE relighting of the Fás scandal touch-paper comes after the full scale of the expenses claims made by just one senior member of the state body were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

Michael McDowell refused to release the Justice Department file in line with the 30-year rule ... If McDowell had been in opposition, he would probably have said we were behaving a like banana republic!