Greece is on target to tap bond markets for money again by the end of this year and exit its bailout programme next summer, representatives from the country's European creditors said.

THE Australian Svengali Lynton Crosby, who has led right-of-centre election campaigns around the world and is credited with David Cameron’s unexpected Commons majority two years ago, has contrived to reduce the British general election battle to one simple but excluding question: “Who do you want to lead Britain, Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn? Personality rather than policy is the battleground.

Surely the time has come to acknowledge what a substantial figure Enda Kenny is, and what a mark he has made on the Irish political landscape, says Fergus Finlay. He established a place in history last week as the first Fine Gael leader ever to have been re-elected to the office of Taoiseach.

Greece committed itself to seven pages of reforms from streamlining tax and Vat systems to alleviating poverty through non-pecuniary measures such as food stamps.

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

Work is under way on a new deal between Greece and its troika creditors after both sides agreed to a number of compromises.

Eurozone finance ministers will get their first look at Greece’s plan for a new deal tomorrow but will refuse to negotiate just yet.

The Whiddy Island oil terminal disaster almost 36 years ago still ranks as one of Ireland’s worst marine tragedies.

A Fine Gael TD’s attempt in the 1960s to reconstitute the role of the State in society may have failed, but it later influenced major policy changes, writes Ciara Meehan.

We in Ireland are rarely found wanting in acknowledging those moments in history that have shaped our past. Only this week we have been commemorating the 98th anniversary of the Easter Rising and the 1,000th anniversary of the Battle of Clontarf.

A powerful short film is putting a human face on job loss and money worries, and the toll they can take.

Fifty years ago this week Bob Dylan’s ‘The Times They Are a-Changin’’ entered the consciousness of open-minded, liberal, socially conscious people and has remained active there ever since.

The Leveson probe in the UK shows a determined chairman can make an enormous difference to an inquiry, writes Dan Buckley

Michael Collins’s vision of Ireland as a centre of economic excellence has been compared by many commentators both to our Celtic Tiger excess and our current woes, writes John Daly

SOME weeks ago, I wrote to your paper outlining what I considered might be the appropriate qualities for an Irish president in the current climate of financial uncertainly.

THE next president will be tasked with renewing the Republic and “rescuing it from dereliction”, Fine Gael candidate Gay Mitchell has said.

THE recent deaths of Garret FitzGerald and Declan Costello should give us pause for reflection about the calibre of those who entered Irish public life in more recent decades.

FORMER judge and politician Declan Costello was a great Christian and a man who had offered Ireland a new vision for living, mourners at his funeral were told.

Former High Court President and Attorney General Declan Costello will be laid to rest in Dublin tomorrow.

DECLAN COSTELLO was of the generation that pushed Ireland into the modern age and he made a very significant contribution to that process.

THE former President of the High Court Declan Costello, who led the investigation into the Whiddy Island disaster, has died in Dublin.

Garret FitzGerald will be remembered best for his massive contribution to public life in Ireland over the past 50 years, writes John Downing

BARACK OBAMA built his candidacy, in public at least, on his great charisma, a fine, resonating baritone voice and the promise of a new America.

THE year 1977 was not a great one from the standpoint of the state papers. Historically, the most important events were related to that year’s general election. As the civil servants were not formally involved, the elections were glossed over in the state papers.

THE Dublin City and County Book of Honour of the Great War 1914-1918 was part of the homily at 11am Mass in the Pro Cathedral, Dublin, on Sunday, November 14.

A TERRIFYING rumbling shattering a still winter’s night, was the prelude to Ireland’s worst maritime disaster, a quarter of a century ago.

CHARITIES are wide open to abuse by individuals seeking to evade tax, it was warned yesterday.

The mother of a Carlow man accused of the murder of a teenage father-of-one has alleged that the dead youth tried to have sex with her two weeks before her son allegedly stabbed him to death.