Efforts are continuing to resolve legal proceedings arising from the involvement of Health Minister James Reilly and others in the purchase of a nursing home in Co Tipperary.

THE love and sex lives of some Aer Lingus workers at Dublin Airport were almost a daily source of gossip and confidential social interplay, a judge heard yesterday.

DEFENCE MINISTER Michael Smith will be seeking a share of the €14 billion funds in the SSIA schemes to finance the expansion of the naval service — particularly more high-speed drug trafficking interception boats.

FORMER Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof is €1.4 million poorer after the near-collapse in a online travel company in which he is a major shareholder.