Promises of aid poured in from Greece and abroad as firefighters managed to douse most of the massive fires that ravaged the Greek countryside for a week and killed 64 people.

All major blazes in Greece were under control today, and firefighters were working to extinguish smaller fires in the southern part of the country.

FIREFIGHTERS battled the country’s last big blaze in southern Greece yesterday after managing to bring under control hundreds of others that for one week ravaged large parts of the country and killed at least 64 people.

Firefighters battled the country’s last major blaze in southern Greece today, after managing to bring under control hundreds of others that for one week ravaged large parts of the country and killed at least 64 people.

MIGRANTS, including the Roma community, are to benefit from some of the €750 million EU money being spent in Ireland over the next seven years, the European Commission has announced.

A European Commissioner leading a Brussels taskforce on the North Ireland will today meet a senior minister in the Stormont power sharing government.

A Sinn Féin delegation has lobbied the EU Commissioner for Transport for a better road and rail infrastructure in the north-west.

The British presidency of the European Union has recommended that €200m be allocated to peace and reconciliation funds for the North, it was claimed today.

Peace and reconciliation projects in Northern Ireland and Border counties of the Irish Republic could be said to benefit from a new tranche of special European Union funding, it was claimed tonight.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams denied his party had any involvement in the murder of Dublin man Joseph Rafferty who was shot dead last April.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams today dismissed as “nonsense” claims that the IRA has held back about 300 guns despite its commitment to a full de-commissioning of weapons.

EUROPE’s big bang of just one year ago has turned into the low hum of business as usual.