Two Irish campaigners were detained tonight in Israel after being arrested on a humanitarian mission to Gaza in which at least 15 people were shot dead.

The new series of TV adverts as part of the 'Crashed Lives' campaign was launched today by the RSA chairman Gay Byrne and TV presenter Miriam O'Callaghan.

HAVING heard Senator Terry Leyden attribute the Taoiseach’s intervention in the recent Roscommon planning controversy to his being a ‘humanitarian’ with a ‘big heart’, I’ve wasted no time faxing Mr Ahern to request the release of Fintan Lane of the Irish Anti-War Movement from Limerick Prison.