Parents of children with special needs whose school services have been reduced dramatically will personally plead with Health Minister James Reilly to reverse the cuts.

His was arguably the story of last year’s An Post Rás, when his battered body and twisted wreck of a bike was posted on message boards and chat forums with headlines ranging from ‘This ain’t football’ to ‘No blood-subs here’.

A FORMER 17-stone truck driver whose father’s death inspired him to quit his job and transform his life has just completed the gruelling Tour de France — in his dad’s honour.

THE Government’s soft stance on corporate crime has been exposed by the failure to provide extra staff to the Director of Corporate Enforcement in recent years, Fine Gael claimed.