It emerged today that the senior Irish officer in Lebanon, Lt. Col. John Molloy, contacted his liaison officer in the Israeli Defence Forces to express his concerns about nearby attacks six times prior to the destruction of a UN observer post in southern Lebanon by an Israeli airstrike.

The Football Association of Ireland are pressing ahead with plans for their forthcoming matches against Israel in Tel Aviv later this month despite the latest security alert.

DEATH camp survivors, President Mary McAleese, government ministers, nearly two dozen ambassadors and various religious leaders gathered last night to remember the Holocaust.

THE chief Palestinian representative in Ireland has described Israeli threats to kill Palestinian President Yasser Arafat as Mafia-like thuggery.