They decided to devote it all - all of the resources they inherited - to buying every election they possibly could, writes Fergus Finlay

The degree was an opportunity for Cowen to make a speech. A lengthy speech. Fifty minutes, writes Terry Prone

A memorial consisting of three standing stones will honour West Cork men who lost their lives in service during the First World War.

Sligo County Council is facing a bill of several million euro after the Supreme Court ordered it to pay most of the costs of the long and bitter legal row over public rights of way across the historic Lissadell estate in Co Sligo.

Sligo County Council has been ordered to pay most of the costs arising from a multi-million euro legal action over a public rights of way row at the historic Lissadell Estate.

Sligo councillors yesterday attacked their officials and legal advisors for refusing to tell them why they went to court over rights of way at Lissadell House.

The environment minister has confirmed that the local government official who presided over Sligo County Council’s Lissadell court saga has walked off with a pension lump sum payment of over €250,000.

Woodwards will offer a large stamp collection on November 30 in Cork city.

Sligo County Council may have to fork out several million euro in legal costs after the owners of the Lissadell estate won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that there are no public rights of way across four avenues through the historic grounds.

The owners of the historic Lissadell Estate have won an appeal against a finding that rights of way exist on the property.

Members of the club where Irish athletics latest world champion honed his skills will walk their hero tonight through the streets where he grew up.

Four men are to have speed-limiting devices fitted to their cars following a display of doughnuts earlier this month.

MICHAEL COLLINS would have empathised with the bravery and courage of the late Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan who delivered the oration at the Béal na mBláth commemoration just months before his death, the founding president of the University of Limerick, Dr Edward Walsh, told attendees at this year’s ceremony in West Cork yesterday.

More than 1,000 people are expected to attend the 89th annual Michael Collins commemoration at Béal na mBláth in Co Cork later.

An elderly man whose car crossed on to the wrong side of the road and in collision with another vehicle, resulting in the death of his wife and a child suffering severe spinal injuries, has claimed he is not liable for the accident because a medical ailment caused him to lose control of his car.

A 25-YEAR-OLD man had to have his leg amputated as result of injuries he sustained after he was struck by a car taking part in an international rally event, the High Court heard yesterday.

THE owners of Lissadell House have secured it with barbed wire wrapped around poles and there are boulders blockading access to the Yeats Museum in a separate coach-house.

Following a protracted legal battle, the High Court has ruled that public rights of way do exist at the historic Lissadell estate in Sligo.

A decision is expected today in the long-running legal row over public rights of way at the Lissadell estate in Sligo.

FIVE Irish food producers won prestigious Euro-toques Ireland awards yesterday for their services to Ireland’s culinary heritage.

THE Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) said that activities at the organisation were now “by the book” and significant progress has been made in tackling financial challenges.

Concert promoters confirmed today what Leonard Cohen fans have been saying for days – Everybody Knows the singer-songwriter will perform in Ireland this summer.

IT has at last dawned on me why media reports on the views of Dr Edward Walsh, a fairly well known public figure, are almost always accompanied by the description “founding president of the University of Limerick”.

LISTENING to some of the teachers and the union representatives moaning during the week one could be tempted to suggest that what we need is to bring back corporal punishment and flog those teachers.

AS the teachers’ unions hold annual conferences around the country, the founding president of the University of Limerick has launched a blistering attack on teachers describing them as “a pampered group” who are “behaving like spoiled children”.

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Two publicans who served alcoholic beverages to a man who was one of two people killed in a horrific road traffic accident shortly after he drove home from the pub acted in a negligent manner, it was claimed before the High Court today.

AN appeal went out yesterday for a combined Cork/Limerick effort to revive a major part of Cork’s entertainment heritage on the banks of the Shannon.

The legal row over the existence of rights of way through the historic Lissadell Estate in Co Sligo has been adjourned for several weeks.

ELEVEN people are to lose their jobs with the decision of the owners of Lissadell House in Co Sligo to close the historic estate to the public.

THE backers of a private €100 million clinic at Adare Manor want to reduce the scale of the development by nearly one third.

TWO sisters who were raped and sexually assaulted by a neighbour after they babysat his children were given more than €1 million in damages in the High Court yesterday.

A 48-YEAR-OLD woman has begun an action for damages against Allied Irish Bank plc for alleged bullying and psychological abuse while employed at the bank.

RETAILING in Limerick city centre has fallen behind shopping centres in its suburbs to an unprecedented level, a top urban planner warned yesterday.

The large number of students getting high points in the Leaving Cert is reportedly sparking new concerns that the exams may have "dumbed down" in recent years.

The President of the University of Limerick Professor Roger Downer has resigned from his post for health reasons.

THE GOVERNMENT is playing politics with the people of Waterford and the South East on the issue of university status for Waterford Institute of Technology, according to the Labour Party.

AS a veteran socialist/liberal commentator, Fergus Finlay (Irish Examiner, February 15) not surprisingly chooses to concentrate on the micro issues regarding lone parenthood — usually motherhood — in his take on Kevin Myers’ “disgusting article” in the Irish Times.

THE comments by Dr Edward Walsh have not only caused anger and hurt but served to expose the continuing resentment of those not conforming to the current social norm in this country.

THE recent comments on lone parents made by the president emeritus of the University of Limerick, Dr Edward Walsh, are long overdue.

THE academic who came under fire over his comments about lone parents, last night reiterated his belief that our society needs to look at social welfare systems which encourage single-parent families.